Awlright Sans....
What is the per unit cost of the MV-22, CV-22? Tell us your numbers.
How do you respond to the GAO's questions about Out Year funding costs in the current Fiscal situation we find our Country confronting?
Expound on just why we need the Osprey in light of the now defunct EFV and removal of Well Decks from several of the new LHA's....both of which shoot the Over the Horizon Amphib Assault concept squarely in the ass...if you would please?
The Navy has zero capability to provide Naval Gunfire in the support of Marines engaged in an OTH beach assault....does that also not show the OTH to be a darn myth and a bullcorn way to justify many Billions of tax payers money for something that just plain don't exist....that being the ability of the USMC and the US Navy to perform OTH Amphibious Assault DESPITE all the money spent so far....and that which is going to be spent in this pursuit of a way to justify a Marine Corps based upon Amphibious Assault.
Take a step back....and look at the "big" picture....not just the Osprey all by itself....the whole OTH thing reeks of something that ain't Rosewater and Flowers does it not?
If one accepts the fact there is no OTH Capability in the cards (remember the lack of amtracs that can get to the beach in a timely safe manner from over the horizion) then CONVENTIONAL aircraft nicely fit the ACTUAL need.
Or do they not in your view?
Outside OTH capability....we are still using a variant of the techiques used in the days of the whaleboat and Ship's landing forces with the additon of Vertical Envelopment techiques which the USMC pioneered and the Army perfected.
At what costs to the Nation do we continue with this mythological OTH concept? If we bin the OTH effort....what is actually lost that we cannot live without?
Tell us please.....I am sure lots of folks would participate in an honest debate on this.