I hope some of our 'troops' read this article. They might find it interesting... I am not sure when this aircraft will make it into service. Certainly the US Navy, as well as the US Army, could use this aircraft, especially as a platform for SQQ-28...
Certainly, a nice platform for the US Coast Guard as well.
Getting there faster is important based on the mission...
1 posted on
05/16/2019 7:53:30 AM PDT by
topher
To: topher
2 posted on
05/16/2019 7:57:10 AM PDT by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: topher
5 posted on
05/16/2019 8:01:54 AM PDT by
gaijin
To: topher
Great.
Now I gotta worry about *2* Jesus nuts instead of one...
8 posted on
05/16/2019 8:08:37 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: topher
That is a very good looking machine. Yup, I know looks aren’t everything, but that machine appears to want to fly. And fly well.
To: topher
Okay, I confess that I am a bit behind the curve with regard to the development of vertical envelopment aircraft (other than the application of that theory via the one-way trip in a Herky Bird or Starlifter).
But it looks to me like we already have a tilt-rotor troop mover aircraft in production (The V-22). So I have two questions: 1)What does the Valor do that the Osprey cannot do? And 2)Why not revamp the Osprey to meet the new requirements?
Thanks ahead of time for your considered responses.
17 posted on
05/16/2019 9:14:08 AM PDT by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: topher
So the Osprey hasn’t killed enough people to matter?
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