"V-22 DESERT TESTING FINDS PROBLEMS THAT HURT MISSION EFFECTIVENESS"
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
ps.com...
Inside the Navy
January 22, 2007
DOT&E Report Outlines Concerns
V-22 DESERT TESTING FINDS PROBLEMS THAT HURT MISSION EFFECTIVENESS
The V-22 Osprey, which may deploy to Iraq with Marines this year,
suffered problems that hurt its mission effectiveness when the Air
Force tested it for a month in the New Mexico desert, according to a
new report from the Pentagonšs top weapons tester.
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These sound largely like software problems. That's no surprise - maybe 1 in
a 100 organizations actually write reliable code. You pretty much assume
that your software will be crap, and work around it.
It's a bit disturbing that the Osprey didn't get tested in a desert
environment for an extended period before last year. If it was so tested
prior to that, how is it that it suddenly sucked last year? It's not so much
that the V-22 is sensitive to desert conditions, but that nobody seems to
have examined the issue before. If the machine is in fact sensitive, that's
not necessarily a huge deal - the Afrika Korps managed with their tanks in
North Africa.
AHS
except that it is an "attack transport"
In such a role reliability is everything
Vince
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