Sans,
As usual....you miss the mark by miles. In case you have not had your cataract surgery or skipped your morning coffee....or just have a hang up on the Sikorsky CH-53K......read the posts and see where you went off the rails will you. There should be 18 airframes in mothballs at Davis-Monthan AFB that could be SLEP'd to the new standard and if Grumman still has the tooling for re-starting the production line again....unit costs would be less than in the past. Add in the fact the Navy has reduced the number of Carriers....that leaves more aircraft to go around for the remaining carriers. Maintenance costs alone would prove an advantage over Osprey's.
The sad note is if one builds a carrier without Cats.....one limits the capability of the vessel tremendously. There is a long lived thread in the Military Forum about just that issue....the UK's new Carrier and its design. If their carrier continues not to have the ability to cat launch or trap fixed wing aircraft....and thus being totally reliant upon 22's and F-35's....they might just be making a very expensive and sad mistake. The cost of the 22 and the risk of the F-35 program being cancelled....could doom the new carriers before they are built and commissioned.