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2023-03-26 Science & Technology

Military Quietly Stops Buying Ospreys as Aircraft Faces an Uncertain Future

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-26 06:19|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Recent Sandboxx article found at this link.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-26 06:27|| 2023-03-26 06:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Should be renamed the 'Centaur' and sent to the Gama Goat museum. I suspect a lot of GI's are pleased with the apparent phase-out decision. Never much of a hit with the DoS Foreign Military Sales client crowd either.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-26 06:54|| 2023-03-26 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Send Ukraine all the close out ospreys for their fall offensive. The platform has been around a while so I am sure inexperienced pilots ought to able to execute the intricate maneuvers required for Miley’s master plan. Include some 8track players with complimentary Ride of the Valkyrie tapes to put the fear into the Russians.

Posted by Spusose Whaitch5440 2023-03-26 07:00|| 2023-03-26 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Hate to break it to the V-22 haters but this is the UH-60 Blackhawk replacement.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-26 07:03|| 2023-03-26 07:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Given the official insistence that the bird is fine, this is slightly surprising from my POV, but I do not pretend to understand the fiendishly subtle complexities of US military procurement.

What does bother me is this - a few days ago we had a story about the USN putting the brakes on amphibious transport shipbuilding, starting with scheduled replacements for the Whidbey Island class. Now we have production stopping on the way we get the Marines vertically over the beach, a means that has a rather high non-combat attrition rate. (And also keep in mind that the USN has committed to the CMV-22 as its COD platform, albeit for only a 48 airframe purchase.) It may be a matter of me deciding that 2+2= 22, but has the USN quietly decided to ditch part of the amphib mission without actually saying so?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-03-26 08:02|| 2023-03-26 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Military systems acquisition programs must be scuttled prior to a Trump administration taking office. He must be forced to start from scratch.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-26 08:09|| 2023-03-26 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Ukraine does not need amphibious Landry ships. We a following the plan outlined in Lindsey Graham’s spittle spaying tirade.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-26 08:52|| 2023-03-26 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Landing - no slight meant against the Cowboys legacy.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-26 08:55|| 2023-03-26 08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 The USAF has a limited need for V-22 Ospreys, mostly in the unit that supports those "icky" special forces people, so there was never a massive interest in them. Basically a "click bait" article for the Osprey haters...

Mil.com is a private company that has its own agendas on many of the articles it writes as well.

Posted by magpie 2023-03-26 08:58|| 2023-03-26 08:58|| Front Page Top

#10 no slight meant against the Cowboys legacy.

I would name a ship after Tom Landry before I named one after Harvey Milk.

Posted by SteveS 2023-03-26 09:19|| 2023-03-26 09:19|| Front Page Top

#11 The Milk Class rear echelon entry craft...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-26 09:35|| 2023-03-26 09:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Staubach Class Missile Frigate.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-26 10:46|| 2023-03-26 10:46|| Front Page Top

#13 The blackhawk replacement is another variant of the cv-22.

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-03-26 10:52|| 2023-03-26 10:52|| Front Page Top

#14 What I'm seeing is the V-22's issues seem to come from swiveling a turboprop engine at the end of the wing. The V-280 will have rigid engine mounting with a swivelling rotor gearbox.
CH-47 Chinook's use rigid engine mounting with combiner gear train, and splitting drive train. They still have problems with the gear train, even without a swiveling prop system.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-03-26 11:52|| 2023-03-26 11:52|| Front Page Top

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