Multimission, Multiservice, Twin-turbine, Vertical-lift, Tiltrotor Transport Aircraft. Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey can carry 24 combat troops, or up to 20?000 pounds of internal cargo or 15,000 pounds of external cargo, at twice the speed of helicopter. It features a cross-coupled drive system so either engine can power the rotors if one engine fails. For shipboard compatibility, the rotors fold and the wing rotates to minimize the aircraft's footprint for storage. The V-22 is the only vertical lift platform capable of rapid self-deployment to any theater of operation, worldwide.
@Jamenator1 Then that would be helpful, a gunship with the speed of a plane!
82ndairborne100 4 days ago
@82ndairborne100 no not the m230 (to heavy), but they have mounted a 7.62mm minigun to the belly of some of the v-22s on deployment in the middle east.
Jamenator1 5 days ago
@Jamenator1 I don't know if it was exactly the M230, but it was some gun. IDK that would be cool though.
82ndairborne100 5 days ago
The "Dornier Do 31" is the first real VTOL transport aircraft,
Lagerfeld2008 5 days ago
@82ndairborne100 i wish, but sadly i don't think they are adding the m230 30mm.
Jamenator1 5 days ago
@Jamenator1 They aren't replacing the chinook they replaced the Pavelow which was a terrible idea, also the V-22 is extreamely unreliable and has killed several americans and wasted several millions of dollars because of its crashes from mechanical error.
Freemon34Comms 6 days ago
So cool!
They are mounting the Apaches' gun on the bottom of one of these.
82ndairborne100 2 weeks ago
How did I miss this.
XKS99 2 weeks ago
@McRaeTube acctually they can glide when both engines fail, allbeit not well but they don't just fall like a rock
Jamenator1 1 month ago
@SupperStu72 they are harder to shoot down than the ch-46s they are replacing
Jamenator1 1 month ago