It is too tricky to maintain in combat. It’s like the original M-16, fine on the range, but the damn thing jammed in the real world. We had to clean the suckers after every flight because they were unhappy with the climate change caused by going up to 10K and then returning to earth in SEA. Combat isn’t under laboratory conditions.
]]>Consider: they didn’t fly the current squadron of Osprey to Iraq, they went by carrier. They do the same thing choppers.
The concept is nice – it’s just too complicated in the real world.
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