tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey

UNCLASSIFIED: three tilt-rotor V-22 Ospreys. Good footage huh?

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[KentAllard]

@v22crewchief

it will have a lot to do with how many can be embarked, even more so than the dimensions

[v22crewchief]

@KentAllard

you seriously think you are telling me something I did not know??

real quick have you ever even seen one of these planes and im talking the Marine corps aircraft any of them in person??? a CH-53 and CH-46?? any of them Ive flown on both them I worked on both.

I have even flown on CH-46s In Australia I was down there in 1999 down in brizbane and then flew up to rockhampton for a little training and I have to say I loved baging your chicks!

[KentAllard]

@v22crewchief

>Someone LtCOl placing his mark on the corps so they could retire comfortable

just like all the generals who signed of on the V-22 retiring to jobs with the contractors...

[v22crewchief]

@KentAllard

I recieved more enemy fire from the 5 o'clock to the 7 o'clock positions on my CH-46s than anywhere else thats why I wanted a ramp gun, and every other crew chief see I didn't just start out on V-22s But that POS thing they came up with that crazy ass mount and we had to use the 240 D firing 7.62 was usless.

[KentAllard]

@v22crewchief

53E guys also have side guns, ditto the 47

[v22crewchief]

@KentAllard

Someone LtCOl placing his mark on the corps so they could retire comfortable without listening to the guys who were on the side mounted 50 cals in Iraq and know they are just about usless because our bigest threat is from the rear IE ramp of the aircraft and thats a fact!

[v22crewchief]

@KentAllard

once again you don't give your source....

As far as that stupid belly gun If they did what I and every other Combat veteran that was in the V-22 probram told them to do we wouldn't EVER have Had a belly gun and we would have Had the Ramp mounted 50 cal like the 53E guys have. No one wanted to listen to all of the Combat veteran CH-46E guys who fought in Iraq for multiple tours, someone just had to have a damn belly gun, biggest waste of money I have ever seen.

[v22crewchief]

you crack me up.

I love your posts all they are is reguritation from a news article ill leave you at this because really I don't give a shit to waste my time typing out the obvious.

You really think that we couldn't deploy V-22s to that POS country until concrete pads were built?? then believe what you want I can not and will not change your mind be sure to believe everything in the news and I don't care where it comes from.

[KentAllard]

@v22crewchief

Well for one they couldn't deploy them in Afghanistan until concrete landing fields had been built for them

Speaking of which how is Task Force Pegasus doing? The Army helicopter brigade put together to provide air support for Marines in Afghanistan because they can't do the job themselves what with retiring so many CH-46 and the ten V-22 not being up to the job-and are those ten spending most of their time broken down?

[KentAllard]

@KentAllard

slight update on that: they've given up trying to put a .50 in the belly, thats now in the rear and the 7.62 has been been placed in the belly turret. Still same effect on weight increase and troop decrease.

also theres been some sort of funding procurement delay for both the C-27 and its ground attack variant. I guess between Iraq & Afghanistan and bogus spending even the absurd sums the military gets can become stretched.