The Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft competition was a US Tri-service (USAF, US Navy, and US Army) competition to what would be termed a counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft. The competition ended in August, 1964 with North American Aviation being declared the winner with their NA-300 that became the OV-10 Bronco. No competitor actually built a prototype until the competition was over, when North American began production of 7 YOV-10s. Convair did build a prototype of their Model 47 Charger whilst they protested the competition results.
I decided to do a little WHIF exercise along the lines of "What if one of the other competitors had actually won?" The profiles below show my take on this idea. Each of the profiles represents one of the seven competitor that made it past the first round of elimination (plus the Goodyear proposal which, though it was eliminated early was too fascinating not to show). Hope you enjoy my wild imaginings!
Chuck