"Proving the mettle of the military’s Osprey" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Mar 2014 11:03 p.m. PST |
"Thirty-two years ago, the secretary of the Navy, the commandant of the Marine Corps and chief of naval operations had to decide on a replacement for the old Vietnam-era CH-46 helicopter, the heavy-lift workhorse of Navy fleet replenishment and Marine air assault. The options were a new twin-rotor such as the Sea Knight, or an entirely new tilt-rotor technology that had been developed and flown by NASA. We established a blue-ribbon panel of the top aeronautical engineers and operators, chaired by Hans Mark, former secretary of the Air Force. The unanimous conclusion of the panel was that the tilt-rotor was the way to go. It was an aircraft designed specifically for survivability. In combat, on lifesaving search-and-rescue missions, performing humanitarian airlifts or moving troops and equipment, the tilt-rotor could fly faster, higher and further. It took off and landed like a helicopter but cruised at twice the speed of any helicopter. It provided the capability to do many new missions, but most importantly, was much less vulnerable to groundfire and could save thousands of lives in combat. After careful engineering evaluation and risk analysis by the Navy, we committed to the program and the secretary of defense signed the decision document in 1983
" Full article here. link Amicalement Armand |
jpattern2 | 30 Mar 2014 7:28 a.m. PST |
I would take anything Lehman says with a grain of salt. He "used to" have close ties to US defense contractors, and has no doubt maintained those relationships. |
Mako11 | 30 Mar 2014 8:45 p.m. PST |
I suspect it will do quite well, especially for modern day covert raids, and small-scale insertions/extractions, if you can get past the cost of them. Of course, due to the design, they'll need to keep it out of the line of fire. However, that isn't surprising, since even the "armored" AH-64 Apache gunships proved surprisingly vulnerable to farmers with antiquated rifles, in the last conflict. |
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