So it’s another Osprey
So we are on the hook for another Osprey. Got it.
What requirements will this platform do that the Osprey can’t? Not crash and burn?
Not hardly.
Cannot come in hot for quick pick-up or fast-rope.
They have to transition from fwd flight over the LZ - nothing says "hit me" like a loiter over a hot LZ.
That's why the Army intends to fly Black Hawks for another 30+ years.
I can’t wait for the first report that some young Warrant Officer took one out and barrel-rolled it.
You know someone is going to try.
Meet “FLRAA,”
That’s not a name. Should be focusing on drones anyways.
If the Army and Navy have their own aircraft, why do we need a separate Air Force? Why not put all our aircraft under Army and Navy control, as in WW2?
Looks like another Osprey. Someone at the Pentagon must be in love with that design.
“And by the way, Chinese President Xi Jinping has nothing like it.”
Unfortunately, China’s R&D program = stealing what we develop. Then they try to mass-produce it at much lower cost.
The saving grace is that an aircraft like the one depicted would require A+ quality metallurgy, synthetic materials, and quality control. To date mainland China seems incapable of that.
I can only imagine the ‘requirements” food fight that will ensue between the USMC & Special Ops folks.
Any dreams of fielding such an aircraft by the ‘early 2030’s” is a pipe dream. The V-22 took 20+ years to design, test, build and field...and it’s still the most incident prone aircraft in the DoD fleet.
It bears mention that except for the F-35 and a few small flight training platforms, all of the US Navy’s aircraft are multi-engine. And they still lose an airframe on average about once every two years because of a double-engine failure, usually due to fuel contamination.
So in time these things are going to start killing people because they failed to engineer in the ability to perform a safe landing in the event of all engines inop.
Another corrupt uniparty political grift boondoggle, as assinine as the Osprey; which kills everyone in the event of engine failure.
What about an a10 like plane with vectored thrust jet engine. Could float like a butterfly, take off like a banshee...I’ve seen a jump jet do that...why not the a10....could be remote controlled...
Tilt!
You need to know nothing about helicopters to see that the Defiant X was the clear winner to replace the Blackhawk, in size and performance and sustaining costs. This is another total debacle waiting to happen. Way too sophisticated and expensive for what was needed.
Tilt rotors....
“10,000 parts rotating around an like leak.”
If I'm a soldier on the ground in need of support, I would want either an A-10 or "Puff the Magic Dragon". And for high speed troop deployment ... that's what parachutes are for.