Aviation Week & Space Technology leaps to an interesting conclusion from last week's USS Battan medevac mission:
"This was the first time the aircraft had been used to conduct such a mission from the sea, and it demonstrated the tiltrotor would be suitable for use as a combat search-and-rescue platform."
Who knew the CSAR mission was so simple? And to think people have been getting worked-up over steep-descent VRS, suppressive fire and OEI performance...
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