You Know That $100 Million Dollar MV-22? It Only Works 54.3% Of The Time

unhappycamper

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Mon Nov-29-10 08:58 AM
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You Know That $100 Million Dollar MV-22? It Only Works 54.3% Of The Time

unhappycamper note: Since the �Pentagon� (DoD? Gannett?) has �requested� that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: For $100 million dollars, I would have expected to get a little more use than 54.3%. Just lose this loser, guys.

The CV-22 Osprey ended fiscal 2010 with a mission-capable rate of 54.3 percent, fourth-worst in the service.

Osprey availability still hovering at 50 percent
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Nov 29, 2010 5:43:01 EST

The CV-22 Osprey ended fiscal 2010 with a mission-capable rate of 54.3 percent. On any given day, from Oct. 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, half of the special operations tilt-rotor aircraft couldn�t fly their full range of missions. The Osprey�s fiscal 2009 mission-capable rate was 50.1 percent, the lowest ever.

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n2doc

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Mon Nov-29-10 09:22 AM
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1. but...but...it works 100% of the time in my video game!

And it looks so cool in the recruiting adverts, too!

:sarcasm:

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Geoff R. Casavant

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Mon Nov-29-10 04:41 PM
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2. It's the "Sex Panther" of tilt-rotor aircraft.

"54.3% of the time, it works every time."

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Mon Nov-29-10 04:48 PM
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3. "What has wings that go up and down and flies only when the sun shines?"

A joke about another FUBAR plane the F8U Corsair that the Navy/Marines bought as an "All-Weather" fighter.

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gratuitous

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:16 PM
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4. Spluh!

You want to risk damaging a hundred million dollar piece of fine machinery on something as inconsequential as a mission? That's not why it was commissioned, you know.

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Xicano

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:30 PM
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5. Works half the time? That only means we buy twice as many

and we are operational 100% of the time.

:sarcasm:

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