Despite all the politics and planted press coverage around the VXX decision, has no one has noticed that the Navy chose a less-safe, lower-performance helicopter for the Marines to carry the President of the United States? Coalition payback aside (and oops, the Italians just announced they're...

(newsgroups trimmed way down) On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:44:48 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote, in us.military.army: "Paul J. Adam" wrote: :What would _you_ consider a "fair trial", Fred, and would your opinion :change if you were the defendant?

A proposal has been posted to us.config to create a new newsgroup in the us.* hierarchy, us.military.killed-in-action-dow. Purpose of the group is to provide a forum for the discussion of persons killed in action or who died of their wounds while serving with the US military and to give moral...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071000106.html A Defense Agency spokeswoman, however, said Japan has no offensive weapons such as ballistic missiles that could reach North Korea. Its forces only have ground-to-air missiles and ground-to-vessel...

http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/NewsAnalysis.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=1bb47a2b-e820-454a-9103-60a42dc65400 It’s often said Osprey flies like a plane and lands and takes off like a helicopter – but that is both a cliché and an understatement that hides the synergy that comes from...

http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=131435 In Afghanistan, British troops are playing the leading role in one of the toughest parts - Helmand province. We will continue to press the Government to do everything it can to ensure our troops have sufficient...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/15348956.htm Marine Corps officials said Wednesday that they have no intention of buying new helicopters rather than the V-22 Osprey, rejecting a key recommendation of a new study produced by two Washington think tanks. .... Thompson said he expects...

The Quad Tiltrotor is too big to be hangared on any ship the Navy has so it really needs to operate from land bases. Would it just be used for delivering people and small items to flatops (full carriers and Ampihbs) or use the ships as lillypads to support deep raids? Which service will...

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=115420&ran=147415 The San Antonio was conducting its exercises nearby, Lee said. A V-22 Osprey flew from the deck of the warship to the ailing vessel and confirmed its location. Well it's a start. -HJC

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,120495,00.html “And I said, ‘Dang, the best place to deploy this airplane is the Horn of Africa because of the range and speed. You know, you can cover all that area down there. And its aero-refuelable. It carries 24 people,’” he...

Carry three Netfires CLUs inside the V-22 and land out of line of sight of the enemy. The CLUs are taken out, tipped upright, and left by themselves. Once the V-22 has left then the CLUs are activated and launch the first wave, LAMs. The LAMs spot enemy units and do BDA as the PAMs strike then...

A: The Navy intends to reduce it's purchase of F-35Cs by deploying more Marine Corps strike fighter squadrons on board big deck carriers. B: The USMC plans to buy zero F-35Cs. Does A + B mean that the next USN big deck carrier will have a ski ramp? ;-) -HJC

This is the sort of good news that the mass media always ignores. ;-) http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/5751/ Marines successfully completed two non-stop, coast-to-coast flights this week with a pair of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, as a precursor to a transatlantic flight to England with the...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/DA917E4ABFEF022F86256FDE00322EC3?OpenDocument "The Navy is easily the least-enthusiastic JSF participant," said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Teal Group Corp. in Fairfax, Va. "If there's a JSF slip, the Navy can add on...

http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/07/05/daily3.html Gee, if only we had a fighter aircraft with the range, speed and S/VTOL abilities of the V-22 that could deploy from the same ships to replace the Harrier and escort the Osprey. It would be nice if it were stealthy and supersonic...

Why does the Super Hornet have leading edge root extensions (LERXs) instead of adjustable canards? Is it an area-rule thing or did they worry about changing the shape too much to get past Congress? -HJC

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9759784%255E911,00.html However, experts said the size of the proposed ships could allow use by a modified F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Osprey tilt-wing plane. -HJC

Has anybody been insane enough to rig a LAPES load with a hook so it can catch an arresting wire on a carrier from a low flying C-130? -HJC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/navy28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixhome.html A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "With the demise of the Sea Harrier, the Royal Navy will be left with a capability gap. But we believe that that is an acceptable...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-defense11feb11,1,1322518.story?coll=la-news-comment Why, for instance, is the administration insisting that hundreds of millions of dollars be poured into the Marine Corps' glitch-plagued, tilt-wing V-22 Osprey program? When the wings...