US military grounds entire fleet of Osprey aircraft following a deadly crash off the coast of Japan
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you seem like you know whats up
why did the military just not abandon this?
This shyt has crashed so much its clearly unstable
I feel like casuals inherently dont trust them
Jean Jacket
NOPE
Congressional mandate...last one was 2021 and delivers till 2025...SOCOM tapped out and said no more.
Nobody is going to order more as per the most recent Intel.
The clutch and gearbox issues are the elephant in the room...Bell just got awarded a big contract to fix it...I guess to patch these shyts up until they all go to the boneyard or in the ocean.
They (DoD) want the airframe to last into the 2050s.
The Army has the stick right now on the next replacement for vertical airlift.
We'll see.
Them shyts been fukking up since I was in the military. And I got out in 2000
And the Marine Corps is the wrong branch to maintain that type of aircraft.
A lot of Airforce pilots end up flying them for marines too.
theres too many conflicts right now for there not to be an alternative
Jean Jacket
NOPE
That's why COCOMS exist.
These current responses are already playing from decades' old war plans.
Right now the leading edge is heavy in cyber and unmanned technology.
The Army is actually good at it ironically.
I'm sure there will be some unmanned pax delivery system in the future.
That Bell deal makes sense now, when I read it at the time and it said no initial aircraft procurement
but if these things are supposed to be island hopping in the pacific, the logistics to keep those things running must be wild.
Is the new V-280 has the same gearbox problem as V-22?
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
This is why I don't fw any type of helicopters, even these new ones. Even before Kobe, just looking at a helicopter always had the
I know a lot of cats in the Air Force who feel the same way but the 'irony' is that helicopters that can autorotate may be safer than fixed-wing aircraft (read: airplanes) because if a plane loses engines it's prolly going down whereas a helicopter with no engines can essentially coast in neutral to the ground.
Helicopters can also stop in midair, land just about anywhere and don't need a runway, and can climb straight up.
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
Breh that looks like something nikkas knew was going to fail but had to design because Colonel Hapablap was going to raise hell of they told him the truth about it
it is muthafukka
