Posted on 07/11/2015 11:49:46 PM PDT by Rabin
The MV-22 Osprey gets $6.5 billion vote of confidence by "Defense Secretary" Chuck Hagel. Naval Air Systems Command has given Textron and Boeing Co. $6.5 billion for 99 Ospreys
Israeli special forces want up to five Ospreys and will pay $70 million apiece, all of will come out of our + $3 billion Israel military U.S. annual assistance.
More than 30 Marines and an un-known number of contractors have died in MV-22 use and development anomalies to date.
Some lawmakers and Defense Department officials sought unsuccessfully to cancel the program. to date. Some lawmakers and Defense Department officials have sought unsuccessfully to cancel MV-22.
(Excerpt) Read more at dodbuzz.com ...
We got six V-22s in Spain now, so it's not too much trouble to fly one to Paris, so all our Generals can visit Paris, at least two of the six will be flight ready, which is about average.
http://helicopters.axlegeeks.com/l/24/Bell-BOEING-V-22-Osprey
V-22 Osprey approximate base price of this rotorcraft is $68 Million each, which is 820% more expensive than the average for its class.
President Barack Obama has also said he will veto any budget that keeps the spending caps in place.
raben
So tilt rotors are a “class” now? Class of one you mean.
TC
Yet he will gut the fighting men and women by 40K in the next 2 yrs. He’s already gutted several K, and reduced Tricare Prime and Tricare Life. We are having a hard time as Tricare Life/Medicare finding doctors, especially specialist that are willing to take the crappy paying health care.
Hubby is Ret. SCPO. With 2 SS checks and a Navy pension we exceed the VA $38K cap. Anything the VA does for him is under Disability, and that is on the very bottom end hearing aids and dentures. He worked the flight deck back in the 60-80’s when he had sea duty, and wasn’t teaching on base.
How many Marines have to die in this death trap before it is grounded for good?
Tilt rotors. 1,000,000 loose parts rotating around an oil leak.
Headline doesn’t match the article
Not only that, the article is from June 14, 2013
These maintenance issues, I will have to read up on them.
But the tilt rotor has to be one of the safest aircraft for miles flown.
Helos don’t have the speed and the range.
I have seen countless helo crashes, some people walk away from some they don’t.
If you look at the Black Hawk, there have been a ton of deaths with this aircraft. When I was in, no one wanted to be on the Blackdeath machine (Main Rotor Gearbox Lockups), everyone wanted on Chinnocks or the Jolly Greens.
Even on the new CH-53K redesign, they are having trouble with this component.
Ultimately, we will be able to judge an aircraft by number of deaths related to mechanical failure per flight hour. But the number of miles traveled per flight hour in a tilt rotor is another important consideration.
Not near as many as the number of soldiers who were killed bringing the CH-47 on line.
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