| To be honest, I am in the "No" crowd when it comes to this bird, but I also admit that I don't know too much about it other than what I have read about and seen on the news/web.. All the reports I have seen shows it to be a "trouble-plagued" way over budget albatross that the military really never wanted in the first place and that it was a pork-project of some senator to funnel money to his "military contract contributors"... |
The Marines definitely wanted it - so much so they put all their eggs in one basket. They are in a real bind now if the Osprey doesn't come out aces in its deployment as the CH-46s are flying with one wheel in the boneyard and there is nothing in the pipeline to replace them. The need to squeeze on deck elevators makes an off-the shelf solution a near impossibility.