At least the rotors on the Osprey don't intermesh via seperate transmissions at opposite ends of the aircraft.
can't descend rapidly during insertion due to vortex ring problem STILL
doesn't have ANY WEAPONS on board for defense...NONE
Isn't speced out for anything above 10,000 feet and it's ship to shore delivery is less than alternatives...
this is a cash cow, a disgrace to the Marine Corps, Pentagon, Congress and the corporations that will murder the Marines who serve in order to suck on the nipple of government tax dollars...
If you flew a Cobra with the flight restrictions into "combat" .... you and your Marine brothers would have died in order to pay off Marine flag officers, congressmen, corporate fat cats and union V-22 workers while you are burning to a crisp in some god forsaken jungle or mountain range.
CH-64 may be flying 10,000 rivets but at least they can land vertical, can loose power and auto rotate, can shoot at the enemy on the ground if they have to. I'm to old to ever have to go to war in this bucket of cr@p, but my son isn't and I'm seriously thinking that I might not want my kid flown into a hot LZ in one of these POS.
10,000 rivets flying in close formation!"
LOL. A good friend of mine is a CH-47 driver in the Army...calls the Chinook, "The only aircraft in the US inventory capable of an air-to-air collision with itself."
During my time in the Army I seem to recall that at some point during every Chinook flight I was on, the crew chief came back, started tearing panels of the wall and tightening things...after awhile, I assumed it was normal, but I always preferred Blackhawks. I actually had a few flights on UH-1s which were ok, and even one in the plywood box under a CH-54...exciting in a nightmare kind of way.