Consider the ride. And look at the leg-room and comfort and the ability to take a lot of stuff with you. And just imagine the opposite in the MV-22.
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Consider the ride. And look at the leg-room and comfort and the ability to take a lot of stuff with you. And just imagine the opposite in the MV-22.
Needs a contrasting video with the MV-22 to really prove your point. And the MV-22 will fly further, faster, so you have a better chance of reaching your destination.
More expensive, much more complex and except for special operators, not needed.
Well, if you need to move 50 troops 100 miles, you need two sorties by an Osprey, or one by a Chinook. If you look at pax/miles, the Chinook wins. And it costs what? $16mm for a spanking new airframe? They’re both equally vulnerable at the objective. And the Chinook is far more versatile in terms of loads.
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I have a friend at church who was a Vietnam era Warrant Officer Pilot and worked at Bell during the development of the Osprey. I told him about some of the criticisms of the Osprey and he asked if I had ever been on an Osprey, as if that had any bearing on the question. he then came back and mentioned the initial problems with the Chinook.
Every system has teeth cutting problems, but the Osprey has one problem that has killed every similar aircraft when they tried to put them into operation many years ago, complexity.
Complexity and war don’t get along together very well. The KISS principle applies every where and more so in war situations where you have to have your AC available at all times. My friend at church has admitted that the only reason the Marines have been able to make a go of it so far is the fact they preposition spares and other support for the AC. In the end I think USMC is going to get bit hard by trying to go with the Osprey.
OToH, Navalizing the Chinoook, I think, is a no go. It’s simply too big. I’ve been in both the 46 and 47 and CH-46s operated off my second ship, Sylvania. There is no way a 47 will fit in the same space as a 46. The 46 barely fit the Sylvania. You might make a go of them on ships like LHDs whre you have a large clear flight deck, but that’s about it.
Updating the CH-46 probably would have made sense as the machine is already tried and true. Boeing has done that with the Chinook, so doing it with the 46 is also possible.