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Let’s see, it’s too hot for carrier decks, weighs too much, costs too much... and now you can’t do long range COD of the engine. Just cancel the damn thing already.
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This will make the COD guys happy. Hauling engines sucks and can be dangerous if one breaks loose on a cat or trap. I know of at least one really terrible Cod mishap when an engine broke loose off the cat shot. It threw the CG so far aft that the plane pitched nose up and did a hammerhead stall into the water.
Sounds to me like the shipping container is the issue, considering there is not alot of size difference between the F135 and the F119 engine (that’s the F-35 and F-22 aircraft). Since the F-22 program has been cancelled, what do these naysayers propose we fly combat missions in?
You posted three separate articles against the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. What is your motive?
Don't think that vert. rep. was ever envisioned for the V-22 anyway, but no reason why H-53's cannot do it - 288 mile range w/ engine slung is more than enough - pick it up from the deck of a fleet supply ship and sling it on over to the carrier - what's the issue?
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Ok, that is just insanity. How was this not a critical part of the design criteria from the start?
YGTBSM.
One wonders how much time Captain van Tol has actually spent deployed on the flight deck of a LHA or LHD with an Osprey equipped ACE MEU since he retired in 2007 as opposed to sitting in his office reading error fraught GAO reports written by agenda driven accountants like David S. Chu.
van Tol commanded the USS Essex from August 2003 to February 2005. The last and only time Ospreys were aboard the Essex was in February of 2000.