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Anonymous
I was on an Osprey this summer. They're pieces of shit. They're the killingest aircraft of all time if I remember my history correctly. Over 60 deaths during the testing phase.
The POS Rolls-Royce engines they use were designed for horizontal, not vertical applications, so they spill/squirt oil all over the place when oriented vertically. The AF's solution? Wipe it all off and replace the oil EVERY FUCKING FLIGHT.
The fly-by-wire system and lack of actual mechanical control devices ensures that a simple computer crash is fatal for all hands. That one happened at a major Pentagon demonstration a few years ago.
You can't put guns on the front because of the avionics. You can't put guns on the sides because of the huge engines. You can open the door and put guns in the back, but who really cares? You can't drop men out the sides because of the downdraft from the huge engines. When you get right down to it, this plane is nothing but a cargo plane that has the option of flying really slow.
One of my buddies is a crew chief down in Florida on this flying turd, and even he doesn't have a single compliment to bestow on it, especially coming from the Blackhawk, which he absolutely loved. Fuck the V-22.
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