Production Of The V-22 Osprey Is Ending. The Pentagon Needs To Be Sure It Has Bought Enough.
Loren Thompson Senior Contributor
Apr 8, 2022,10:44am EDT
Production of the most revolutionary rotorcraft in the U.S. joint fleet is winding down.
With nearly all of the 481 V-22 Osprey tiltrotors in the program of record now ordered or about to be, the Bell-Boeing team that builds the aircraft expects new production to cease sometime in the next several years.
After getting off to a rocky start during the closing days of the Cold War—Dick Cheney repeatedly tried to kill it during his four-year tenure as defense secretary—Osprey went on to become the most versatile rotorcraft in history.
I say “rotorcraft” because V-22 isn’t a helicopter in the conventional sense.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2022/04/08/production-of-the-v-22-osprey-is-ending-the-pentagon-needs-to-be-sure-it-has-bought-enough/?sh=7565223cad9e
