AviationBanter - View Single Post - Should David Cameron call for UK purchase of V-22s?

**John Dallman** · August 24th 06, 10:44 PM posted to rec.aviation.military.naval

In article ,
(Henry J Cobb) wrote:

The V-22 only needs a runway at the start of its mission, and can fly
from the existing bases to any point in Afghanistan faster and with
fewer airbone refuelings than any helicopter would require.

You're assuming it doesn't need a runway at the far end because all its
heavy shipping will be in one direction? That's only a "mostly", rather
than an "always".

It still isn't available in volume any time shortly. And Tony Blair's
current foreign policy is sufficiently widely unpopular here that "Let's
give the Americans lots of money for slightly dodgy aircraft we can't
get for ten years" probably isn't a message that would improve Cameron's
popularity.

---
John Dallman, , HTML mail is treated as probable spam.