Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Are the RN going to get 2-4 Ospreys for COD? If not replenishment of large items will mean a port call..............................
Of course at $ 73 mm each plus training etc.........................
Why? What's wrong with Chinooks?
The conventionally-powered carrier HMS Invincible didn't have V-22 Ospreys yet she still holds the record of 166 consecutive days at sea without a port call between April and September 1982.
This even eclipses the US Navy's record of 159 consecutive days at sea set by the nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt in 1991.