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NAVAIR Details Changes in Navy V-22 Osprey Variant – USNI News

deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). US Navy Photo The Navy is in the early stages of planning its carrier onboard delivery (COD) replacement platform, which will be a baseline MV-22 Osprey plus an extended range fuel system, high-frequency radio and public address system, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials told…

deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). US Navy Photo

The Navy is in the early stages of planning its carrier onboard delivery (COD) replacement platform, which will be a baseline MV-22 Osprey plus an extended range fuel system, high-frequency radio and public address system, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials told USNI News this week.

Navy and Marine Corps leadership in January signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) stating that the Navy would begin buying a variant of the Marines’ tiltrotor platform beginning in Fiscal Year 2018. Since then, spokesman Billy Ray Brown said, NAVAIR has been preparing for an anticipated FY 2016 engineering change proposal (ECP) by conducting an analysis of options for the development of the three changes needed to create the Navy variant.

via NAVAIR Details Changes in Navy V-22 Osprey Variant – USNI News.

With a full bag of gas, they’ll be lucky to have enough payload to bring back a bag of mail.

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  1. Quartermaster

    They’d be better off buying new build C-2s. But, they didn’t ask you or me, and that’s just a da***d shame.

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  2. Paul L. Quandt

    QM:

    Of course they didn’t ask you, you are far too smart. They want dumb answers, that’s why they ask the people they do.

    Paul

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  3. HalfEmpty

    Public Address System?

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  4. xbradtc

    Yeah, that struck me as a. weird, and b. a bit of gold plating.

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