Ready or not, Japan wants to buy the Pentagon’s controversial Osprey aircraft

[BoQ77]

Um no...that was "700 helicopters damaged/shot down". Big difference, Point to your source that says all 700 were "shot down". I'm sure in some of those missions every helicopter got at least one bullet hole.

Like how many helicopters do you think the US had deployed over there at any one time? (Not the total over the years). 700 down would have probably been a huge percentage of the fleet and stopped things cold.

Do you know Lam Son 719 Operation ? 700 per week, means 100 per day

Um no...that was "700 helicopters damaged/shot down". Big difference, Point to your source that says all 700 were "shot down". I'm sure in some of those missions every helicopter got at least one bullet hole.

Like how many helicopters do you think the US had deployed over there at any one time? (Not the total over the years). 700 down would have probably been a huge percentage of the fleet and stopped things cold.

Do you know Lam Son 719 Operation ? 700 per week, means 100 per day. Lost or heavy damaged,
Losses were heavy in Lam Son 719. The ARVN lost almost 50% of their force. U.S. aviation units lost 168 helicopters; another 618 were damaged. Fifty-five aircrewmen were killed, 178 wounded, and 34 missing in action in the entire operation, lasting until April 6, 1971

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Do you know Lam Son 719 Operation ? 700 per week, means 100 per day



Do you know Lam Son 719 Operation ? 700 per week, means 100 per day. Lost or heavy damaged,
Losses were heavy in Lam Son 719. The ARVN lost almost 50% of their force. U.S. aviation units lost 168 helicopters; another 618 were damaged. Fifty-five aircrewmen were killed, 178 wounded, and 34 missing in action in the entire operation, lasting until April 6, 1971

So now you are posting the facts. Notice it doesn't say 700 shot down. It says 168. The rest were damaged.

 

[BoQ77]

So now you are posting the facts. Notice it doesn't say 700 shot down. It says 168. The rest were damaged.

Yes. other sources said diff.

 

[CiciHoriOzK]

Japan buying up military equipment...and.... bolstering its "defense forces"? Hmm really..hmm

 

[GR!FF!N]

@Basel

yes,there is a concept design of V-22 based AWACS and EW platforms as well as tankers...

@xunzi

you are probably proud of "Quad-copter design" as you thinks it is unique.get a clue from where China copied the concept.

Curtis-Wright X-19 four rotor tilt aircraft. 1963.

the new one on that path.....

The Black Knight Transformer, which is capable of both flying and driving, has been show in action for the first time

Advanced Tactics, which were commissioned by the U.S Army to design the machine, released the video showing the transformer on its first flight

The 'multicopter' is seen driving through the desert before the rotors are sprung out for take off

The machine is designed to fly up to 150mph in the air and can be flown using a remote control


We have lift-off: First look at the 'multicopter', the Army's new unmanned flying truck in action | Mail Online


plus,they've already replacement plan of V-22s.the aircrafts from where China made the concept.....

Bell V-280 Valor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


never mock USA.they're ruling those sectors for decades where China just set their foot on.

 

[gambit]

bs

Nothing 'bs' about it, sonny.

Russian Air Force | Russian Military Reform

Kramnik also notes the modernization of education and training for air force pilots, including the acquisition of modern flight simulators and an increase in average flight time to 100 hours per year.

In 2013, the Russian Air Force will ATTEMPT to increase average flight time to 100 hrs/yr. That means in the past, the average flight time for the average Russian Air Force pilot is less than 100 hrs/yr. In contrast, the average USAF/USN pilot get anywhere in 200-500 hrs/yr, depending on aircraft type and pilot role, and instructors can log over 150 hr PER MONTH. In other words, the Russian Air Force is trying to raise the average flight time of its pilots to 1/3 of American pilots. For the Osprey, despite it being new to the force, many of its pilots are approaching the 200 hrs mark, in both training and in combat.

Bottom line, kid, your Russian Air Force wishes it can fly as often as ours can, let alone have unique aircraft like the Osprey that Russian generals are drooling over behind closed doors.

 

[senheiser]

Nothing 'bs' about it, sonny.

Russian Air Force | Russian Military Reform

In 2013, the Russian Air Force will ATTEMPT to increase average flight time to 100 hrs/yr. That means in the past, the average flight time for the average Russian Air Force pilot is less than 100 hrs/yr. In contrast, the average USAF/USN pilot get anywhere in 200-500 hrs/yr, depending on aircraft type and pilot role, and instructors can log over 150 hr PER MONTH. In other words, the Russian Air Force is trying to raise the average flight time of its pilots to 1/3 of American pilots. For the Osprey, despite it being new to the force, many of its pilots are approaching the 200 hrs mark, in both training and in combat.

Bottom line, kid, your Russian Air Force wishes it can fly as often as ours can, let alone have unique aircraft like the Osprey that Russian generals are drooling over behind closed doors.

lol flight time? what has it to do with the topic?

 

[gambit]

lol flight time? what has it to do with the topic?

You got spanked in public, son.

You mocked the Osprey when reality say the Osprey and its pilots are far more capable than your juvenile mind can grasp. Osprey and pilots get real combat time while Russian pilots stews in vodka.

 

[senheiser]

You got spanked in public, son.

You mocked the Osprey when reality say the Osprey and its pilots are far more capable than your juvenile mind can grasp. Osprey and pilots get real combat time while Russian pilots stews in vodka.

americans are too fat to accomplish anything

You mocked the Osprey when reality say the Osprey and its pilots are far more capable than your juvenile mind can grasp.

says who? you?

 

[xunzi]

You don't give your armed forces much credit. They can haul lots of stuff onto the shore from offshore subs.

They can airdrop the rest if it is too cumbersome for a sub (including more troops). Plus you have no use for tanks or any vehicles on those tiny islands.

The hovercraft is not just intend for islands only.

@Basel

yes,there is a concept design of V-22 based AWACS and EW platforms as well as tankers...

@xunzi

you are probably proud of "Quad-copter design" as you thinks it is unique.get a clue from where China copied the concept.

Curtis-Wright X-19 four rotor tilt aircraft. 1963.

the new one on that path.....

The Black Knight Transformer, which is capable of both flying and driving, has been show in action for the first time

Advanced Tactics, which were commissioned by the U.S Army to design the machine, released the video showing the transformer on its first flight

The 'multicopter' is seen driving through the desert before the rotors are sprung out for take off

The machine is designed to fly up to 150mph in the air and can be flown using a remote control


We have lift-off: First look at the 'multicopter', the Army's new unmanned flying truck in action | Mail Online


plus,they've already replacement plan of V-22s.the aircrafts from where China made the concept.....

Bell V-280 Valor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


never mock USA.they're ruling those sectors for decades where China just set their foot on.

So any concept of 4 wheels car is a copy of Ford right? This stupid mindset never fail to amaze us. The only similar to X19 is that he has 4 tilt rotor. The blade and landing gear, and body shape are entirely different.

Blue Whale (Lan-Jing or Lanjing, 蓝鲸) is a projected Chinese quad tilt-rotor proposed by China Helicopter Research and Development Institute (CHRDI, 中航工业直升机设计研究所) of AVIC. The eventual goal is to have an VTOL aircraft with take-off weight of 60 tons, and payload of 20 to 30 tons, speed of 538 km/hr, range of 3106 km, ceiling of 8615 m, and combat radius around 815 km. It is designed to be fly-by-light, constructed mostly by composite material, and has distributed avionics.[1] However, when Blue Whale first made its public debut at the 2nd Helicopter China Expo held in Tianjin in September 2013, where Blue Whale was shown in the form of a model, the developer has revealed that the project would be a proof of concept program which is still at its preliminary proposal stage, and since China had never ventured into the tilt rotor arena and the arena of developing large helicopter of this scale (equivalent of Mil Mi-26class), the project might progress at a much more prudent approach by first developing an unmanned version at much smaller scale than the ultimate manned version, and once all technologies proved to be mature and fully acceptable, the manned version would be developed based on the experienced gained from the unmanned version in the second step. The naming convention of this aircraft appears to support such claim in that instead of assigned a Z designation for helicopter or Y for transport in traditional Chinese aircraft designation system/practice, the aircraft received a name like most Chinese UAVs, and Z and Y designation are not used. Externally, Blue Whale quad tilt-rotor is almost identical to Curtiss-Wright X-19 except it is round five times larger (for the ultimate manned version). Other difference includes the retractable landing gears where Blue Whale the single wheel landing gear of X-19 is replaced by twin-wheel landing gears in Blue Whale, and there are four blades for each rotor of Blue Whale, as opposed to three for that of X-19.

 

[BoQ77]

We are planning to build our own hovercraft 300 times bigger than this. ... Just kidding. Some guys dream about that only.

 

[Genesis]

We are planning to build our own hovercraft 300 times bigger than this. ... Just kidding. Some guys dream about that only.

That exists, it's called the Zubr. Except it's more than 300 times bigger, way more.

 

[BoQ77]

That exists, it's called the Zubr. Except it's more than 300 times bigger, way more.

We use that for a squad scale. This called HoverTrek

 

[Genesis]

We use that for a platoon scale. This called HoverTrek

a platoon is 40 men approximately, no way you fit that many on that, I mean not if you expect it to move or not sink. The two key features of any watercraft.

 

[Aepsilons]

Yes. other sources said diff.

Given, the Heweys have very little defense against surface to air salvos. These were / are used for light transport.