About time! This dinosaur of the Reagan era was designed to defeat the "Evil Empire", not a bunch of third worlders with RPG's.
Nick and the boys at Sikorsky must really be realing at the statement that the aircraft was obsolete. In all of their rants against the V-22, no one ever said it was obsolete.
Nick made many posts that speed does not count and range does not matter when denigrating the V-22. The situation in Iraq shows that a speedy bird like a tilt rotor will be far less vunerable to WWII era weapons than the current Army Fleet.
Nick and Sikorsky. Enjoy what you tried to do to the V-22! (nice cadence, aye).
The Sultan