"POS?"
This is the kind of crap that is unacceptable.
What do you fly? How about I just roll up to it and, not ever having flown in one, seen it in action, or probably even been to a static display of it, start telling you that it sucks, and that I know more it about its shortcomings than you do?
There's nothing "lowly" about helicopters, but they have a lot of inherent limitations (e.g. speed, maneuverability, altitude, and range) that the tiltrotor addresses. I don't know what I'll be doing outside the big green gun club yet, but I'll be fine.
I know which aircraft I want to be in when Hadji shoots his SA-18 at me. It ain't a helo. That's what it comes down to. All the conspiracy theory BS seems to neglect htat.