The OV-1 saw combat with the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War with 65 lost to operational accidents, antiaircraft fire, ground fire and one shot down by a North Vietnamese fighter[REF] and during Operation Desert Storm.
As of 2011, Alliant Techsystems has partnered with the Broadbay Group and Mohawk Technologies of Florida in a venture to return an armed, modernized version of the OV-1D to operational use as a counter-insurgency aircraft.