V-22 Mission Capable Rates
With the V-22 making its first flight 20 years ago this March, the comment by LtGen Trautman that it was sent into combat too early was telling.
The other comment that caught my attention was the reference to "poor predictive modeling". Sounds lame. Fly a ship for twenty years and then claim that you don't have a handle on the failure rates?
The V-22 has performance that makes it uniquely capable of performing a class of missions, but the management of the program has not served it well. One wonders. Like Comanche, it is a three cornered affair: two private companies and one branch of DOD . Not a coincidence.
Thanks,
John Dixson