V-22 Defender Strikes + V-22 Assessment by a Ret. Naval Aviator

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?

On Oct 12, 7:49 pm, Bill Kambic wrote:
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.

You are aware that it's been in developement for 25 years already
right?

So you could easily say that "in 25 years or so" is now, not in
another 25 years.

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:08:37 -0700, Duwop wrote:

On Oct 12, 7:49 pm, Bill Kambic wrote:
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.

You are aware that it's been in developement for 25 years already
right?

Ayup.

So you could easily say that "in 25 years or so" is now, not in
another 25 years.

No, Sir, becauase "developoment" is not "deployment." Everything to
date is theoretical. Maybe the practice will show strengths not yet
appreciated and maybe we'll see weaknesses not yet identified.

Until you put it to work in the hands of Naval Aviators on a day to
day basis you really don't know if it will work or not.