AFSOC Looking at Future CV-22 Replacement
11/19/2019
​—Brian Everstine
Air Force Special Operations Command is looking forward to a future replacement for the CV-22 Osprey, a revolutionary capability that is still new to the command, AFSOC’s head of requirements said.
Brig. Gen. David Harris, the command’s director of strategic plans, programs, and requirements, said the Osprey’s advancement changed how the Air Force is able to insert special operators by being able to fly faster and higher, and carry more. An Osprey’s top speed of about 240 knots, for example, is faster than helicopters such as H-60 variants and CH-47 Chinooks. The Osprey can get “above the clouds†and fly on an instrument profile before dipping through a hole in the clouds to drop troops in a small landing zone.
“They’re getting people to the target area that we weren’t able to get to the target area before,†Harris said during a Nov. 18 AFA Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Event in Arlington, Va.
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