Ok...the Marines get the Osprey....for doing Vertical Assault from a ship way offshore....how fast they going to fly with underslung loads? They cannot load squat inside compared to the helicopters....carry half the troops. Anyone remember the lesson of Arnhem about lack of troop lift capacity?
For CSAR....it might be the cats meow...for taking off vertically and going fast and landing vertically...great. But to me ...the gain is wasted when you start acting like a real helicopter ...toting stuff. It is too small in capacity but too big as it is...to make it bigger to tote what you need.
Can you spell B-O-O-N-D-O-G-L-E?