U.S. Special Operations Command plans to field a new precision-guided munition, the small glide munition built by Dynetics, on its AC-130J and AC-130W gunships by April 2017, according to industry and SOCOM officials. SOCOM plans to order 30 SGMs next year, command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Allen confirmed in a June 14 email to Inside the Air Force . Dynetics' SGM was the only munition that met SOCOM's requirements and any other source would result in “unacceptable delays in fulfilling...
