A short article from the Marine Corps Times;
A Marine MV-22B made a hard landing Friday in Syria, a military official said.
One service member suffered non-life threatening injuries and several other troops aboard were uninjured, the official told Military Times.
No enemy fire was involved in bringing the Osprey down, the official said.
The Osprey isn’t supposed to be able to fly and it often proves it. Thank you, God, that there were no serious injuries.
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20 responses to “USMC Osprey has “hard landing” in Syria”
They did make sure that nothing was left of the aircraft for either the muj or the Russians to get their meathooks on this time, right?
Really? You think the Russians want to have anything to do with this POS technology?Then again, they would learn how not to build a “aircraft “.
“Thank you, God, that there were no serious injuries.”
AMEN.
^^^This^^^
Hopefully they rigged the wreck for instant maximum martyrdom.
This bird should be renamed “The Turkey.”
A cunning device for making Marines 2 inches shorter
This bird should be renamed, ” The Turkey.”
A cunning device to make Marines two inches shorter
Everytime I see one of those it reminds me of the rural mailboxes with a wind driven model of a guy sawing wood or a woman churning butter.
Very glad that there were no serious injuries.
Is the issue mechanical with these birds? Or is it just a bad design?
“The Osprey isn’t supposed to be able to fly and it often proves it.” Truer words were never spoken.
“Any landing you walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can actually re-fly the aircraft afterward is a great one.”
“The Osprey isn’t supposed to be able to fly and it often proves it. Thank you, God, that there were no serious injuries.”
Thank God for that!
One way I choose to describe the Osprey is sometimes it’s a helicopter, sometimes it’s an airplane, and other times a twisted piece of scrap metal the US Government used to call an Aircraft.
Unfortunately, my son and his unit have to fly in these over there as we speak…hope to hear from him soon.
I was crewing Huey’s at Ft. Hood after my return from Central America. Crewing for the 6th Cav Col I went to a sales show at Bell Textron, Ft. Worth. All V.I.P.. I was told to stand up and some 3 star general wanted to know “what I thought” “Not what I thought he wanted to hear”. I told the truth and said I’d much rather have the Huey outside parked. And it looked like it would flip over. He told me, ” I agree with you son” “Now sit down”. 1986
Pretty neat story.
The V-22 first flew in 1988.
This was 1986, this was testing and development stages.
This was the same time frame that the Apache’s and Blackhawks were replacing the Cobra’s and Huey’s. So the Army was eyeing the Ospry. Mostly testing via the 6th Air Cav. At Ft. Hood, Tx.
The Ospry would flip over…Sorry
Other articles are saying the incident is under investigation. Reason for crash: It’s a fucking MV-22. No investigation needed.
They have been dangerous since their inception.