(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon’s troubled V-22 Osprey program has seen its accident rate steadily increase in recent years, according to a new report from congressional auditors, despite heightened ...
Longstanding and deadly mechanical problems with the V-22 Osprey have gone unaddressed for years by the joint program office, and it may take a decade to complete recommended fixes, as risks continue ...
CMV-22 Osprey, assigned to the ‘Sunhawks’ of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50, sits on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Aug. 13, ...
In a remote stretch of desert, far from hangars and hardened shelters, a crippled V-22 Osprey sat for months while U.S. personnel quietly turned the crash site into an improvised depot. The aircraft ...
Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...
Material failure was either the cause of or contributing factor in more than half of the serious safety incidents involving the US military’s fleet of Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotors in recent ...