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Intelligence and Insight You Can Trust

Copyright © 2012 IHS Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1

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Tilting at Windmills: A Status Report on the V-

22 Osprey

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Overview

• Brief History of Tilt Rotor Technology

• Procurement

• Current Operations

• Planned Upgrades

• Prospects for Future V-22 Sales

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From Helicopter to Tilt Rotor

Martin D. Maisel, Demo J. Giulianetti, and Daniel C. Dugan, The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight NASA

History Series (Washington DC: NASA History Division, 2000) 3, available at http://history.nasa.gov/monograph17.pdf

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Early Days: Convertiplane Program

McDonnell XV-1(Compound Helicopter design) VS. Bell XV-3 (Tilt Rotor Design)

Credit: Boeing – The XV-1 actually did the first conversion from vertical rotor Credit: National Museum of the US Air Force

lift to horizontal winged flight.

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Bell XV-15

Credit: Nasa Dryden

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Operation Eagle Claw

Photos: Charles Tustin Kamps, “Operation Eagle Claw: The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission,

Air & Space Power Journal, September 2006.

Debris of an abandoned C-130 airplane at Desert One

Debris of an abandoned Sea Stallion helicopter at Desert One

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JV-X

XV-15 at Paris Air Show

Credit: MilborneOne, Copywright 2002, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N702NA-Bell-XV-15A-Paris2.jpg

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Legacy Platforms

Replaces USMC CH-46 Sea Knight Replaces AFSOC MH-53M Pave Low IV

and augments MC-130 Combat Talon

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Program of Record

• 360 MV-22s – US Marine Corps

• 51 CV-22s – US Air Force

• 48 V-22s – US Navy (There is no formal requirement/funding for navy aircraft yet)

• 458 aircraft – Total Programme of Record (plus one more replacement aircraft for AFSOC, bringing total to 459)

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Procurement

• 170 Osprey aircraft operational with the

USMC and USAF today

• The V-22 Joint Program office is in the

midst of the 14th production lot overall

• About halfway through procurement of the

458 aircraft in the program of record

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Multi-Year Contracts

• Currently in the third lot of a five-year multi-year procurement (will procure 39 aircraft for the USMC and USAF this year in the third lot)

• Next year will deliver about 40 aircraft in the fourth lot

• About to start negotiating second multiyear, which will be produced at a rate of 21 aircraft per year

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Production Rate

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Production Line

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Cost

• USD67 million

• Cost per flight hour trending below

USD10,000 per flight hour

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Foreign Military Sales

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Navy Programs

• Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) mission

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Rocky History

• 1991

• 2000

• April 2010

• April 2012

“I am confident in the V-22 and it’s design,”

– Colonel Greg Masiello, Manager, V-22 Joint Program Office

“Watching the progress we had made, I convinced my wife that none of us were anxious that it was not safe,”

– Lieutenant Colonel Jason Holden, Lieutenant Colonel Jason Holden, V-22 pilot and a V-22 planning officer at the USMC's Headquarters

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Combat Operations

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Squadrons • USMC CONUS squadrons: Six on the East Coast,

five on the West Coast

• Sixth standing up on West coast will transition to become the first overseas squadron based at Okinawa/2012

• AFSOC CONUS squadrons: Cannon AFB & Hickam AFB

• Plans to stand up first overseas base in Mildenhall UK/2013

• 2013- add V-22’s to HMS-1, the presidential support squadron in Quantico, VA

• 2013- first AFSOC overseas base at Mildenhall

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Upgrades

• MV-22 Block C

• Other upgrades: Data link; blue force

tracker; strategic nacelle initiative;

• Nacelle redesign

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Other V-22 Opportunities

• US Army’s Joint Multirole Competition

• US Air Force’s Joint Future Theater Lift

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Questions?

Caitlin Lee

Aviation Correspondent

[email protected]

Gareth Jennings

Aviation Desk Editor

[email protected]