On Jun 13, 6:42�pm, Dan wrote:
Rob Arndt wrote:
On Jun 13, 6:23 pm, Dan wrote:
Rob Arndt wrote:
On Jun 13, 2:46?pm, wrote:
On Jun 13, 3:40 pm, "David E. Powell"
wrote:
On Jun 13, 5:28 pm, wrote:
On Jun 13, 12:35 pm, Vince wrote:
David E. Powell wrote:
Overseas sales are a pipe dream except either to Saudi Arabia as a
replacement bribe stream or to someone else subject to US pressure
As Japan has considered F-22, maybe they think that Japan might want
the Osprey as well. Search and Rescue, moving people about, etc.....
it is inferior to helicopters for almost all such purposes.
The Osprey is a one trick pony, and the trick is very expensive.
It requires the power of a heavy lift helicopter to transport medium
lift cargo in a very crowded cabin for such a big heavy vehicle
the cabin is 68 inches wide,
and 66.23 inches high,
that is 5" 6" high and 5 foot 8"' wide
Vince
At a speed of 214 Kts and ceiling of 26,000 ft. it's going to be an
easy shoot-down.
I thought it was faster, but going low enough can be an anti-shootdown
tactic too.
Uh-huh..........that's what got a lot of choppers shot down in 'Nam.
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Anyone wanna take bets on the Ospreys going to Iraq in September?
First loss due to combat, flying accident, or technical malfunction?
Rob
You don't see how sick it is for someone who has never put his neck
on the line to place bets on the deaths of those who do?
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The USMC gambled with US soldiers lives when it falsified the test
records on the Osprey-forget about that? And if proven rotorcraft like
an Apache armored helo needs escort in Iraq what do you think will
happen to the more vunerable transitional flight V-22 when it attempts
to transition for landing or take-off?
I can see the AKs and RPGs flying already...
Rob
* *Many aircraft need armed escort for some of their missions, why would
Osprey be any different?
* *AKs fly?
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Being stupid again? Yes, it should read AKs firing and RPGs flying...
but you knew what I meant anyway... I only wish if you were gonna play
English teacher you would do it with everyone here on RAM.
Regarding the Apache, this was supposed to be the premiere armored
attack helo in the world able to stand up to best Soviet/Russian
battlefield weapons; instead, it is fairly easy prey for raghead
insurgents with nothing more than AKs and RPGs... so much for that
myth of invincibility. We should have learned that from the fast and
armored Mil-24 Hinds in Afghanistan. We laughed at their losses... yet
lament our own...
The V-22 Easyprey will be not exception. If I was a US Army soldier
headed for Iraq in September I would be pukin' my guts out if I knew
the V-22 was my ride. SFs can handle them b/c the best consider
themselves already dead before starting a mission. Not the same from
your low-IQ Wal-Mart recruit.
But if it is any consolation Dan I do not believe that had the Nazis
got their tilt-rotor paper projects operational that they would have
been any good either... unless Hanna Reitsch was the pilot
Rob