FH's comment was a bit over the top.....but so is your reply as it would suggest the Marines have problems operating their 53's which is not true either.
The post was to mention that the V22 has fared objectively no worse than the CH53 over time. If you consider the CH53 as not having problems (which I find laughable if you do with the tail rotor drive and duplex bearing issues), then you have to concede the same thing to the Osprey.
Thirty-five years and how many aircraft produced?
Apparently 115 Es and 265 A & Ds. Not a huge number, seeing as how apparently
339 service members died in accidents in the CH53 between 1969 and the present..and thats just according to the information in this list.
Sans, you note that the V-22 has only had 3 "incidents" in the last five years. But this means nothing. It's curious that you minimize (trivialize?) fatal accidents by calling them incidents. In fact, Wikipedia notes seven "incidents" in the last five years if we widen the scope of the word.
Ok well if you want to include "incidents" in a similar vein to those in the 7 listed on the Wikipedia page (like compressor stalls), then in a 5 year period in the mid 80s the CH53 had 22 incidents...and that's from from this surely incomplete list.