Capable of carrying 32 troops or 10,000 lbs of cargo, the V-22 Osprey has significant transport capabilities and is armed with defensive weapons like .50 caliber heavy machine guns and 7.62mm ...

24 troops or 10,000 pounds of cargo Crew: Four (pilot, copilot and two flight engineers) The CV-22 Osprey is the U.S. Air Force special operations variant of the V-22 tiltrotor transport aircraft.

Is the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey a safe aircraft? The very fact the question has been asked so often, and with such urgency, is not a good sign. The V-22—presently in use with the U.S. Air Force ...

The V-22 Osprey is a versatile aircraft with plenty of strengths and weaknesses. It can transport as many as 24 troops if ...

Marana Regional Airport held a ceremony honoring the 19 Marines who tragically lost their lives during a training mission ...

(Sgt. Armando Elizalde/U.S. Marine Corps) The Navy has awarded defense and aviation technology company Shift5 a contract to test predictive maintenance technology on the V-22 Osprey, which the ...

But the V-22 Osprey has also caused the deaths of 62 service members. A crash in Japan last year grounded the entire fleet. We compared accident data for the Osprey with that of its closest rivals ...

With a price tag of about $84 million, the V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft. The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like ...

And because helicopters are transported to Afghanistan as cargo on a C-5 ... more than 1,300 hours in the Osprey, one of the highest numbers in the V-22 program.) Freeman is now convinced that ...