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RIP GUNDAM 22

Ward I know you've been retired for a while but blasting this across the web goes agaisnt opsec.

The Greyhound is the only thing that is reliable and safe enough to carry out the mission tgat the various V-22's are supposed to perform... A 60 year old aircraft that is seriously out-performing a high-tech problematic aurcraft... What is wrong with this picture??? Over-engineering... I absolutely do not know Why nobody adopted the extremely reliable and fast Fairey Roto-Dyne Gyro-copter!!! Designed and proven and manufactured back in the mid 1950's... THAT is the Machine that is needed to replace the over-engineered un reliable and PROHIBITIVELY EXPEN$IVE V-22 AIRCRAFT... PLEASE don't forget about the 19 Marines who were killed in Marana, Az over 24 years ago... Jyst stop making them... Go to more conventional designs... If I was in the Office to decide what to replace it with, I'd first extend the life of the Greyhounds, Then re-Activate a production line for the Fairey Roto-Dynes, and similar designs... Be thankful that Westland Aircraft corp (Who stopped Fairey from producing Roto Dynes) finally went defunct back in 2000...

Administrators are almost all FOS. The V-22 design is fundamentally flawed, but it made a LOT of millionaires...

The US Army is looking at the new version. Big mistake in my opinion.

The V-22 is a very complicated craft and I have always felt that it is a very dangerous one. One good hit an a rotor blade and all will probably die.

Bring back the phrogs.

I really like this movie . The way the Navy is presented reminds me of the way Jack Webb did all of his TV series documentary-style .

The services literally put themselves over a barrel with the Osprey, now the corporate masters can name their price to keep them flying. Not how it is supposed to be...

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There are more than 20 Opsrey's in Northern Australia at the moment, all parked. Aren't they being removed from service?

What would you expect from a military that hasn't won a war in eighty years, another taxpayer's looting scheme?

This plane has had problems from the get go! Old enough at 53 and always following military news this has been a problem plane.

How about a that Greyhound! I'd rather ride in a old Greyhound than new Osprey, any day of the week. Senators making that cash! Good video Ward. best regards chuck

Well at least they can operate from carriers while they are in port.

Safe & effective

30 minutes at Buster?

Thing I dislike most is their noise. You can hear them 15 minutes away.

Need to reinvent the credible sport with liquid rocket engines.

Its a lemon. If its suffering like this outside of sustained combat how is it going to do in serious combat in a drone prolific environment. Imagine 10 years from now we are still running these things around near the front lines. The enemy combatants will be sending drones after them all the time. If someone can fire 20 drones at it and those drones cost a tiny percentage of the cost for the osprey and the men onboard its going to be a prime target. After a few losses they will get pulled back and then you wont see them being used for the mission anyway. To be clear Im not certain the years of large numbers of soldiers loaded in aircraft at lower altitudes anywhere near the front lines has much time left as a viable solution to any mission. Drones are going to be mass produced and stockpiled in ever larger numbers. Unless you can defeat them rapidly in large numbers they are going to reach the target. The only real question is the costs for the drones exceed the cost for the target. That calculation will not be done on a dollar basis but on a battlefield impact and sustainability basis. If you can replace but 50 aircraft a year and I can replace the drones used to kill 5000 aircraft in that same year there is a problem. I dont blame them for developing this. I dont blame them for trying to stick with it until a solution is reached, but I do blame them for not seeking an alternative. A lot more people will die on this before they retire it if it stays in service for many more years.

V22 barely flies as it is…

30 min op rings?

Typical overly complex and expensive military industrial complex equipment. The American people are being robbed blind.

Does anyone here know if CDR Roach was aboard USS America on 79 Med or 81 IO criuse USS America? Ima telling you, i remember his name from that period! was w/VF-114 Aardvarks NAS Miramar

Those who can do, those who can’t become an LSO

although smaller, the AW609 seems more promising among Tilt rotors. its cabin is actually pressurized.

might as well just get a helicopter like the Merlin or Chinook.

The made the choice to go with a tilt rotor to replace the helicopter, instead of the helicopter with a pusher prop! It wonder why, knowing the issues with the v22. I hope this puts the pusher prop helicopter back on the table.

I am disappointed there is no fixed wing replacement for the COD C-2...even a modernanized C-2 would be great for the fleet. While I understand the C-22 is great for amphibians mini carriers but not having an equivalent and capable replacement for the Greyhound is going to be a serious issue for the Navy in the not distant future.

FUBAR : Fly Until Beach And Return

Is gotta be hard on Ward to watch all the failures of this platform when i know he was part of the pecurement program. Such a new capability has to expect some failures along thhe way. Nothing but love for these marines lost and their families

Most drones have four propellers and four engines. This design was tested again and again and shows that it is the most stable, reliable, dependable, or also can get out of jam in case of one engine/propeller failure. Even the civilian market is developing this design further as future air taxis. Innovation is good, but perhaps we should seriously stop using our servicemen as guinea pigs.

I was an active, albeit low time, helicopter/airplane pilot "for fun" when the V-22 was being rolled out. I predicted, somewhat incorrectly, that the aircraft would be a big failure - I don't like anything with a rotor that can't really auto-rotate in an emergency. But, the long game seems to be rolling around to effectively the same result. In the meantime, how many taxpayer dollars have gone into this thing? (Rhetorical; I don't really want to know.) This aircraft is the Military-Industrial Complex at its best/worst.

Thanks that was the best RIO explanation I've ever heard.

30 fatalities in development.

There’s a lot of discussion about the mishap rate of the V-22 being nothing special and that the concerns about it being overblown and similar to other rotorcraft which are inherently less safe than their fixed wing cousins. Is this a “lies, damned lies, and statistics” situation where the way the V-22 is being used intentionally reduces the risk of operations and that even with special controls it still crashes that often?

RIP U /ur_wrong_about_V22. Gone but not forgotten, forever credible. 😢

in the Fallout universe they seem to have fixed this problem

"as long as the war is no more than 30 minutes away" -- droll, Mooch, droll!

Amusing aircraft or Junk money pits-or money makers, depending on which side of the isle you’re on….

ADD ON , i believe done know for sure, but i have read, that the PRESIDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO FLY ON 1 OF THOSE PLANES. that tells you everything you need to know....

its a failure big time, given a choice i would NEVER FLY ON ONE...

And they want to use it to replace the C2 Greyhound which has an excellent reputation for dependability and safety. If I was ordered to board an Osprey out on a Carrier I’d go to the Brig because ain’t happening!

did the naval aviation community that flies the COD mission really want the technology/capability of this platform? or was it forced on them by the MIC?

These should have been retired a decade ago. They are great when they work, but have cost the lives of too many good men.

1. They don't know what the problem is. 2. They don't have a plan to figure it out. "They", as in the Joint Program Office needs to get their heads around how to do Root Cause Analysis and implement solutions. The Navy needs to make another COD choice from any suitable available airframe..

Well, if you can't attack your enemies when they're an hour away, just wait.

hilarious - or not

I know the v280 is smaller but it doesnt factor in to the replacement plan at all?

And that is supposed to be our CAG support transport aircraft(hell, they want it to refuel CV fighter wings as well ,LOL) . Again the US taxpayers and servicemen/women have been robbed/scammed by that V-22 Osprey group of general officers and defense contractors since day 1.