[rlmorel]

Thanks for posting it...good to hear.

[outofstyle]

Ospreys come equipped with a gun at the ramp in the rear of the aircraft, but they might also get a gun with a 360-degree field of fire...

The last time that I commented on this airframe I got hit from 360 degrees. I await the "Osprey"ping list response.

[Yossarian]

I look forward to this getting implemented. I wish this was on at the start of the program, but I understand funding for that got shot down (no pun intended) years ago.

I hope it makes it past our do-nothing-useful-for-the-troops Congrmess.

Anything to add to this, AA? Please try to be polite if you disagree....

[Joe 6-pack]

I kind of like the "retro" look...

[Zhang Fei]

The original Sikorsky helicopter was just an airborne ambulance - no guns. While the Osprey was in development, critics raised issues that weren’t overcome by the time of the deployment. Just as with the first helicopter, solutions will be found to some of these problems once the troops get a little experience with the machines and start to figure out how to work out the kinks in sit down meetings with the engineers.

[Candor7]

360 degrees field of fire without shooting the props off?

Sounds interesting, now if it could only be made into an infra-red motion sensitive automated turret gun, we would really see the dawn of a new age.

Hover, turn on the gun, feed ammo into the hopper, and wait 5.

BRrrrrraaaaaapppp!

OK .safe to land now!

[Publius6961]

With those 2-acre propellers, I doubt very seriously that 360-degrees is exactly accurate...

[FreedomProtector]

A couple weeks ago on the way to the beach, I drove by Camp Lejeune (Marine Base on North Carolina coast). It was an incredibly humbling experience driving on the main thoroughfare in front of the base and reading all of the welcome home signs and seeing the Ospreys fly overhead.

[Delacon]

I read the title and worried that the seahawks were starting to arm themselves. Whew.

[dcwusmc]

Bump

[vpintheak]

My brother the Marine, hates these things. He knew several good marines who died in crashes because these things were supposedly ready to go. I am not going to be impressed very easy by these things.

[philman_36]

It just amazes me that with all of the advanced aircraft we have in this day and age that we have nothing better than the Osprey, which will probably be obsolete in ten years anyway, to bring our troops in by air.

[philman_36]

From what the pilot is saying a souped up/modified, Harrier type troop transport would be better than the Osprey, IMO.

[Eye of Unk]

For fire suppression I would hope the various types of Metalstorm is considered.

[Phsstpok]

Good deal. But I want them to continue reducing the size of the equipment for this puppy

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[Vroomfondel]

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[Broker]

Thanks for post.

[Eye of Unk]