What's the latest news of the V22 Osprey?

[Dan Reno]

"HEY!, What happened to "Power By The Hour" ?

Osprey engines are logging less than 200 hours of wing time in Afghanistan !

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 11:32 AM



And then they must be shipped home for overhaul, reports Bill Sweetman.

There is a good PhD dissertation to be written on the whole V-22 Osprey mess -- how many billions of dollars have been spent over the decades to produce a fast but very expensive long-range troop transport helicopter. One of the biggest untold stories in the military, I think, is the sorry state of Marine aviation -- ancient CH-53 helos, hangar queen V-22s, and multi-role expensive fighter jets -- when what the Corps should be flying is Black Hawks and A-10s, or even long-legged prop-driven aircraft.