And despite the Osprey’s negative reputation, you won’t find its incident record as a dangerous outlier in service-wide or branch-specific data. As Marine Maj. Jorge Hernandez, spokesman for Marine aviation, explained to the Military Times in a July e-mail, the Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey has a lower mishap rate per 100,000 flight hours than the Harrier, Super Hornet, F-35B, or CH-53E Super Stallion.
I know it got a very bad reputation early on with several very high profile crashes that were traced to a condition called vortex ring state, but overall the V-22 has proven to be no more dangerous than other military aircraft in general.
Trying to remember which previous aircraft this one replaced?
Shouldn't it be compared to other aircraft that do a similar job instead of supersonic fighter jets? ie) Chinooks and Stallions?