Rob Arndt wrote:
Best configuration for the V-22, you ask? In combat, a heap of burning
wreckage or in peace time... a cancelled project piece of scrap metal.
Transitional a/c are inherently dangerous no matter what, and if the
primitive Iraqis can down an Apache how much more vunerable is the
tilt-rotor Osprey... or rather "Easy Prey"?

Imagine an Osprey loaded with troops as it transitions to take off or
land in Iraq. One RPG or heavy MG fire to the rotor system and the US
will be scraping the remains of its troops out of the dirt and sand
with shovels.

Why doesn't someone cancel this flying cemetery already? Like the
F/A-22 seems the number "22" in US inventory= disaster. The Craptor and
Easy Prey need the axe. Cancelling the Craptor will save money while
cancelling Easy Prey will save lives.

Rob

This is from the fool who thinks Japan needs ICBMs, nuclear powered
aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines to protect itself from
China and North Korea. Then again he also believes a 34 pound weapon is
an excellent E&E choice for downed air crews, the Earth is hollow,
there's a secret still operational Nazi underground U-boat base in
Antarctica.....etc.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired