Air Force Special Operations Command is perhaps the least well-known of all the military's special ops units. Here's what I learned when I toured their training facilities at Eglin Air Force Base.

AFSOC previously received two AT-802U trainer aircraft at Hurlburt Field on Jun. 28, 2024, in a representative tail wheel configuration, to train crews for the missionized Armed Overwatch (OA-1K ...

Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) 6th Special Operations Squadron (6th SOS) operated a modified version of the legendary C-47 (the Basler BT-67) until 2010.

But what may sometimes get lost in the shuffle is the fact that AFSOC has employed its fair share of single-engine prop planes, such as the U-28A Draco and the A-29 Super Tucano. And now there’s ...

The MQ-9 drones of USSOCOM and AFSOC will get cyber anomaly detection and predictive maintenance capabilities, as well as a podded Airborne Battlespace Awareness and Defense capability.

The venerable Reaper UAV could become a mothership for a single-operator drone swarm, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said recently. AFSOC’s Adaptive Airborne Enterprise project ...

U.S. AFSOC commander Lt. Gen. Michael Conley, Air Force Special Operations Command commander, steps from the OA-1K Skyraider II as part of a delivery ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Apr. 3, 2025.