Sunday, February 06, 2011

V-22 Internally Carried Vehicles...time to dump this requirement.




Again, you've got to be kidding!

There isn't enough room in that bird to carry anything but a vehicle! 

Call it mission creep, bad planning, day dreaming...call it whatever but the idea of an Internally Carried Vehicle inside a V-22 is a non-starter.  Better to air drop one out of a tasked Special Ops C-130 or even use a CH-53K to carry it but this ain't gonna work.

Side note---

Did you notice the vehicles displayed in this test?  The only one not present was the Growler ITV.  Seems as if AF Pararescue and Combat Controllers have already written that vehicle off their list of potential candidates in their competition.