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2007-10-12 Iraq

Osprey's debut in combat zone has rocky start

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Maj. Eric Dent, an Osprey spokesman at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, declined to identify the problem.

"We'll leave that task to the New York Times."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-12 00:30|| 2007-10-12 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 A malfunction forced one of the 10 Ospreys deployed to Iraq to land in Jordan on Thursday.

So the other nine are fine?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-12 03:27|| 2007-10-12 03:27|| Front Page Top

#3 $20 billion tilt-rotor plane

Ha?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-12 05:54|| 2007-10-12 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 They could be referring to the total cost of development for x number of planes, whilst still making it seem ridiculously expensive.

Or it could be a typo.

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-12 06:48|| 2007-10-12 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Good work MAJ Dent! Just remember, get it right... or YOU'LL be flying the next one of these damn things into al-Asad for the long course.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-12 07:08|| 2007-10-12 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 piece of shit should have been scrapped 25 years ago

Posted by sinse 2007-10-12 11:09|| 2007-10-12 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 We're missing a 'Turkey' graphic.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-12 11:56|| 2007-10-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 One of the worrying aspects of the Osprey is that it leaks (and burns) oil. Apparently that is a feature, not a defect (a side effect of having the tilt rotors). I can't help but wonder what effect that has on reliability and safety under fire.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-10-12 17:03|| 2007-10-12 17:03|| Front Page Top

#9 3.5 times the price of the CH-47 plus $20 billion in R&D. What's not to like if you are Bell and Boeing or a congressman bringing home the bacon? $20B will buy near 700 CH-47F at $30M a piece.

Posted by ed 2007-10-12 17:20|| 2007-10-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 WAFF.com/DEFENSE ENWS > US Army-DOD has reportedly narrowed the number of advanced [future]tilt-rotor transport designs from five to three. As said or inferred before, the primary utility of the OSPREY is to gener serve as a real-time testbed and learning curve for more capable follow-on designs.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-12 19:43|| 2007-10-12 19:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Iff the US Navy goes thru and successfully devs its SEA BASING/MOB ofshore floating base concepts, which appears highly likely, THE ARMY-MARINES + US AIR ASSETS > will ostensibly need/use some variant of VTOL tech. MOB > AIR > for a practical puirposes, can be ascribed as a FIXED/STATIC CARRIER FLIGHT DECK, wid = widout catapult launch and deck recovery systems e.g. STOBAR??? YTOL. etal. = COST ECONOMIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-12 19:50|| 2007-10-12 19:50|| Front Page Top

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