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- Title
BELL BOEING OSPREY - A PLATFORM FOR THE PACIFIC?
- Authors
ARTHUR, GORDON
- Abstract
The article focuses on the developments and deployments of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in relation to its largest user U.S. Marine Corps (USMC). It mentions that the development contract of the aircraft was awarded to the firm Bell and Boeing in 1983. It adds the report of Colonel Dan Robinson, the V-22 programme manager, that readiness rates had improved. It discusses the use of the Osprey for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations during Super Typhoon Haiyan.
- Subjects
V-22 Osprey (Transport plane); UNITED States. Marine Corps; BOEING Co.; ROBINSON, Dan; HUMANITARIAN assistance; MILITARY readiness; SUPER Typhoon Haiyan, 2013
- Publication
Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter, 2015, Vol 41, Issue 4, p26
- ISSN
1446-6880
- Publication type
Article