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Product Name: V-22 Osprey
Product Description
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is the first aircraft designed from the
ground up to meet the needs of all four U.S. armed services. The tiltrotor
aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter. Once airborne, its engine
nacelles can be rotated to convert the aircraft to a turboprop airplane
capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight.
The V-22 Osprey provides unique capabilities offering:
- increased speed because it's twice as fast as a helicopter.
- much longer range resulting in greater mission versatility than a
helicopter.
- multi-mission capability: amphibious assault, combat support, long-range
special ops infiltration and exfiltration, transport, search and rescue,
medevac, and, in the future, tanker capability.
The V-22 Osprey aircraft:
- can transport 24 combat troops or up to 20,000 pounds of internal or
external cargo using its medium lift and vertical takeoff and landing
capabilities
- meets U.S. Navy requirements for combat search and rescue, fleet logistics
support, and special warfare support
- matches the U.S. Special Operations Command's requirement for a
high-speed, long-range, vertical lift aircraft
- can be stored aboard an aircraft carrier because the rotors can fold and
the wing rotate
- has air-to-air refueling capability, the cornerstone of the ability to
self-deploy
Boeing is responsible for the fuselage and all subsystems, digital avionics,
and fly-by-wire flight-control systems. Boeing partner Bell Helicopter Textron,
Inc., is responsible for the wing, transmissions, empennage, rotor systems and
engine installation.
The V-22 provides a significant increase in operational range over the legacy
systems it will replace and is the only vertical platform capable of rapid
self-deployment to any theater of operation worldwide.
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