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Loose Bolts Ground V-22 Ospreys; Four Aircraft in Iraq Will NeedFixes
On Mar 26, 2:58*pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
Matt Wiser wrote: As long as it takes. The USMC has a habit of getting its way on procurement, so either get on board or get out of the way. Not to mention that it's been a number of years since the last crash (the one that had 19 Marines killed), and the aircraft has been tested, evaled, and tested again. If you've got an alternative aircraft to replace the H-46, let's hear it. If not, follow the above advice. [ SNIP ] New CH-46's? I'm not being entirely facetious here...other folks suggested this back in the '90's, although the idea would have been to manufacture an improved CH-46. One of our (any country, not just the US) biggest defense procurement problems is whenever a weapons system or vehicle or radio...whatever...starts getting old, we almost always feel the need to design and build a *new* thing. I'll buy that concept for electronics, but it's not obvious to me that if a truck fleet or a buy of helicopters or rifles gets worn out, that we need to spend 10 or 20 years designing entirely new ones. AHS I don't recall any of the aviation magazines reporting that (AvWeek, AFM, WAPJ, etc.). The last H-46s were built new in 1971. CILOP produced the CH-46 Echo version in the 1970s. The production line would be too dormant to restart in any event. The only other serious consideration was the Sikorsky H-92, and it hadn't even flown yet when the V-22 was revived. The New York Twits is the only major newspaper recently to call for the program's termination, but then again, they've been so anti-military since the Reagan years.... |
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