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.
You didn't read this article and you know nothing about Jet Turbines.
True story...one of the first jet turbined helicopters worked so well at altitude they had to wait until it had run out of fuel to land it, why because the higher you go the better a Jet turbine works.
That's a no brainer, jets work better the higher they fly, anyone that knows anything about aircraft knows that so you saying that the MV-22 can't land in the vertical at elevation is just another attempt to smear it and it's capabilities.
And to actually suggest that A Marine Corps Aircraft could never be equipped with ANY WEAPONS at all is down right silly. It already has provisions for 2 50 calibers as well as two hard points for external stores. built into it at the factory. Even the CH-46 doesn't have hard points for external stores.