USMC Culling 77 MV-22 Configurations Down To One

Credit: Bell-Boeing
The U.S. Marine Corps is trying to right the Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey’s troubled past that resulted in 77 variants of the same tiltrotor type being fielded. Of the 263 MV-22s already delivered, about one in four on average is structurally different in some way, causing headaches for maintainers and...

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