Tag: Osprey
USAF Osprey crash in Japan leads to fleet grounding
The US Air Force (USAF) and US Navy (USN) has grounded their V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft fleets on 6 December, following a crash of...
US Marine Osprey’s Cross the South Pacific Deploying from Darwin to...
A section of US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor medium lift helicopters from Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF) 22, supported by a C-130, conducted...
Turning Night Into Daytime
As with anything that infantry is expected to carry, night vision device design must incorporate compromises balancing capability against the load they impose in...
Four Wheeling by Parachute
The operational advantage of airborne forces is their ability to be loaded into fixed-wing freighters, be moved across significant distances and then be dropped...
From Ship To Shore
Getting from ship-to-shore from over-the-horizon ranges places a premium on speed. With this in mind, several companies are reimagining the conventional landing craft so...
US Bullish on Osprey Sales
Off the back of the first international sale of the Bell-Boeing MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotors to Japan, the US military’s programme office for the type...
