On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:30:38 -0700, Walt wrote:


Even if the Osprey worked perfectly, it is still a boondoggle because
it can't make opposed (or even potentially opposed) landings without
helicoptor gunship escorts.

By this reasoning the B-17 was useless because it suffered catatrophic
losses without fighter escort.

And that would make the Mosquito about the sole, successful bomber of
WWII.

The extra speed and range provided by the tilt rotor technology is
useless.

You don't like the program. That's pretty clear. But it seems to me
that you're allowing your prejudices to overcome reason. Every new
technology has problems. Whether or not this technology works out
will be known in 25 years or so, not now.

Some of that history will be written in blood, too. That's part of
the life of being a Marine (or any other member in the sevice of the
Constitution).

So why don't you drain your Vitriol tank and give it a rest?