It combines the cruising speed of an airplane and the crashing capability of a helicopter.Comrade Osprey
And people say America has the most advanced military hardware, if they can barely keep it in the sky in their own backyard playground I can't imagine what would happen to it if someone were actually trying to take it out of the sky
The Osprey is actually very good at evading enemy anti-aircraft missiles. Most missiles have great difficulty locking onto a field of debris strewn across the ocean.
Officials said they were transitioning
So much for more trans military officers
once again VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) is so clumsy, there is no way the US has access to Alien technology lol
Those things are deathtraps.
Per Wikipedia:
As of November 2023, 16 V-22 Ospreys have been damaged beyond repair in accidents that have killed a total of 62 people. Four crashes killed a total of 30 people during testing from 1991 to 2000. Since the V-22 became operational in 2007, 12 crashes, including two in combat zones, and several other accidents and incidents have killed a total of 33 people.
Now, I know the military has a history of experimenting deadly things on people in secrecy and they only suffer over the long run, but surely someone saw 20 people dying right away and said “maybe we should stop”
What's a few dozen lives when compared to the financial well-being of the upstanding shareholders of Boeing?
I remember when this first happened and they said there was 8 passengers and 1 confirmed death when the plane crashed into the ocean.
Was wondering what they thought happened to the other 7.
They crashed in the East China Sea. They really go out of their way to not say what body of water they crashed in.
They keep getting bodies into those death traps? You'd think they learned their lessons (if it's not a cover for spec ops death squads getting clapped during an op)
"Actually-they-fixed-the-Osprey" MFs on Reddit explaining that this was caused by the wind being too strong and not an inherent design flawI found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Japan had another military helo crash earlier this year. In 2019 they also had a high profile F-35 crash.
This many fatal aircraft crashes probably indicates some sort of systematic rot. Either that, or China has perfected the Havana Syndrome ray gun.
