To be fair, in 2002 I had a stuck caliper on my 1G DSM that burst into flames when I was driving on the highway in the middle of nowhere late at night, and I successfully put it out with a bottle of Mt Dew. Was a bit worried at the time because it was the right rear with the flames licking right by the fuel tank…

We are in agreement. Find me an “H-92”. There are none in US inventory nor anywhere else.

Um, no you’re actually incorrect here. I spent 6 years designing the weapons pylon and folding head and tail on the CH-148. The aircraft is serialized as an S-92A because that is what is on the type certification. Its a 100% off the shelf airframe delivered from Mitsubishi Heavy to Keystone for production…

Because Tyler was referring to this machine with a designation that Sikorsky markets for a product they have never produced.

There is no such thing as an H-92. It was Sikorsky’s name for the N492SA they flew around in the early half of the 2000s to drum up support for the S-92 for the Presidential Helicopter competition (VXX) and combat search and rescue (CSAR-X). Nowadays they consider it a militarized version of the S-92 configuration…

Also, Blackwater had some S-92 assets.

Its slow to be adopted because it has an undersized rotor for a GW with much mission equipment, the CT7 engines are also under-powered, the upper deck airframe and transmission mounting has a bad habit of cracking, and it has a sieve for a gearbox (and the upgraded IDMGB which was slated to go on the CH-148 that…

The MH-60L DAP is definitely a bad mamma jamma, that’s for sure. Only Hawk I ever saw with a bigger gun was a design we did for the Navy on the RAMICS

Nailed it. Over 350 and counting...in accidents alone! Theres your deathtrap...

Cobra’s Anger?

The entire premise of a tiltrotor is that you don’t spend time hovering over a hot LZ.

Its too bad the push for the RGS hasn’t kept steam

Exactly.

Can you imagine if social media existed in the era of the Phrog and CH-53D?

This is a perfect example of the Osprey, and its design itself, having essentially nothing to do with the loss of life, and yet you still mentally pin it on the aircraft. Do you not realize this is beyond illogical?

If the Cpl had remained onboard the aircraft, he would still be with us today.

It never ceases to amaze me at the furor you Osprey haters have for an inanimate machine.

Fantastic. A facebook post to show a smattering of opinions of (assumed) Marine opinions, on a story with a clickbait title intended to elicit counterpoint opinions to the tagline. A very objective source.

If the Osprey is so bad, then why is it currently the most tasked rotorcraft in Marine inventory? Why does it have…

Where the hell do you get “constantly”?

Well clearly you are an expert, so everyone should be regarding your shitbox opinion of a vehicle that its operators (USMC and USAF) actually love.

Lets hear your professional opinion of the CH-53

To be fair, Iraq at least procured some simple rugged IA-407 light attack helicopters.

Perhaps they would be a good buyer for all the perfectly serviceable Kiowas we are idiotically divesting.

*Super Tucano

Yeah, but watch out for hop-ons. You’re gonna get hop-ons.

There doesn’t seem to be a manual option on VW’s Golf R configurator. Delayed intro?