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Old 29th Jan 2014, 07:29
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The V-22 is not a helicopter, all vertical lift aircraft are by necessity thin skinned and as light as possible, a 23mm gun is by no means a pea shooter.

There may be screw ups in the recent CV-22 mission abort, but I haven't seen anything that indicates it was an inherent fault of the V-22 design.

I would really prefer the DoD invest in Sikorsky's X-2 technology, but come on if you fly over a ZU-23 and get hit, even an A-10 would likely have problems afterwards.
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