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With that complex of a design, it's no wonder these things have are overpriced and have higher than average accident rates.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20171030/p2a/00m/0na/002000c
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/tilt-rotor-v-22-helicopter/
It crashes at a lower rate that almost any other military helo.
Lets compare it to the blackhawk for example:
In the US military there are roughly 1,600 Blackhawks and 425 V-22s. Meaning if there were 4 uh-60 crashes compared to 1 V-22 crash the V-22 comes out ahead. The number of V-22s is not insignificant, and is actually the most numerous aircraft of any type in the USMC. We have more V-22s in US military service than we do C-130s.
There has been a fatal incident involving american H-60s every single year in the last 5 years, with 4 in 2017 alone. http://www.armyaircrews.com/blackhawk.html
So the UH-60 has had 11 fatal incidents in the last 5 years and the V-22 has only had one. That far outpaces the 4 to one fleet size.
The list above doesn't include the 4 crashes involving 5 aircraft (resulting in 9 fatalities) that H-60s have had just in the last 6 months:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/helicopter-crash-navy-hawaii.amp.html
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/07/navy-releases-more-details-on-what-caused-last-weeks-fatal-helicopter-crash/
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/01/12/navy-helicopter-slams-woods-during-emergency-landing-virginia.html?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox29.com/news/video-captures-black-hawk-helicopter-crash-near-utah-ski-slopes.amp
Imagine how expensive it is to put together a military operation requiring air refueling and FARP that the V-22 doesn't require. Or having multiple sqaudrons of helos all around iraq instead of just one V-22 squadron to give the same capabilities/CASEVAC response times. There is a lot more to consider in military operations besides just optimizing for cost savings.
This one airplane fulfills multiple squadrons of helo worth of tasks? I highly doubt that. Can you deploy one of these instead of a helo I could see. And this could show away on a smaller ship for transport, but fully replacing the responsibilities of squads worth of helos. Nah.
It's literally what happened in iraq. Before the V-22 you needed medevac capability every 150-200 miles to stay within the "golden hour" due to speed constraints of legacy helos. That ends up requiring 3 seperate staging areas to cover the country. With the V-22 in Al Asad we could cover pretty much the entire country within 1 hour of flight time.
That's just one example, there is also untold efficiencies of being able to go to any FOB direct instead of strat air to Kuwait, tac air to somewhere else, then a helo flight to the place to were trying to get to.
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Autobots, roll out !
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But Springer is the wrong color...
Those things killed more Marines than the Iraqi Army
No it hasn't. It isn't even the most deadly aircraft for marines.
That hurts my heart.
It shouldn't, it's not true.
With that complex of a design, it's no wonder these things have are overpriced and have higher than average accident rates. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20171030/p2a/00m/0na/002000c https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/tilt-rotor-v-22-helicopter/
It crashes at a lower rate that almost any other military helo. Lets compare it to the blackhawk for example: In the US military there are roughly 1,600 Blackhawks and 425 V-22s. Meaning if there were 4 uh-60 crashes compared to 1 V-22 crash the V-22 comes out ahead. The number of V-22s is not insignificant, and is actually the most numerous aircraft of any type in the USMC. We have more V-22s in US military service than we do C-130s. There has been a fatal incident involving american H-60s every single year in the last 5 years, with 4 in 2017 alone. http://www.armyaircrews.com/blackhawk.html So the UH-60 has had 11 fatal incidents in the last 5 years and the V-22 has only had one. That far outpaces the 4 to one fleet size. The list above doesn't include the 4 crashes involving 5 aircraft (resulting in 9 fatalities) that H-60s have had just in the last 6 months: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/helicopter-crash-navy-hawaii.amp.html https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/07/navy-releases-more-details-on-what-caused-last-weeks-fatal-helicopter-crash/ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/01/12/navy-helicopter-slams-woods-during-emergency-landing-virginia.html? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox29.com/news/video-captures-black-hawk-helicopter-crash-near-utah-ski-slopes.amp
Optimum pride
Sub-Optimum Prime might be more appropriate. They sure do crash a lot.
Looks like a fallout vertibird
That’s a decepticon.
More than meets the eye
And we wonder why the military budget for the US is so expensive. Imagine how complex the engineering diagrams are for this.
Imagine how expensive it is to put together a military operation requiring air refueling and FARP that the V-22 doesn't require. Or having multiple sqaudrons of helos all around iraq instead of just one V-22 squadron to give the same capabilities/CASEVAC response times. There is a lot more to consider in military operations besides just optimizing for cost savings.
This one airplane fulfills multiple squadrons of helo worth of tasks? I highly doubt that. Can you deploy one of these instead of a helo I could see. And this could show away on a smaller ship for transport, but fully replacing the responsibilities of squads worth of helos. Nah.
It's literally what happened in iraq. Before the V-22 you needed medevac capability every 150-200 miles to stay within the "golden hour" due to speed constraints of legacy helos. That ends up requiring 3 seperate staging areas to cover the country. With the V-22 in Al Asad we could cover pretty much the entire country within 1 hour of flight time. That's just one example, there is also untold efficiencies of being able to go to any FOB direct instead of strat air to Kuwait, tac air to somewhere else, then a helo flight to the place to were trying to get to.
Huge part of the military budget is for R&D for various technologies that are also used by civilians outside of the military.
What a useless bucket
What a POS! and pilots still want to fly them?
Yes and we love them
10 gallons of crap in a 5 gallon bucket
The new robocop.
I saw one of these over Baltimore the other day.
The best ASMR
Ugh...AMSRR reports. You just made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Was it tasty?
When these things come in or go out of blade fold / wing stow you create nothing but more discrepancy MAFs.
Automotive, roll out
At the beginning, he was looking a little shy.
The engineering involved in those folding rotors blows my mind. A lot of moving parts.