Osprey Fires Guided Rockets And Missiles In New Trials

Credit: Bell Helicopter/Jay Miller
After turning the Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules into an armed reconnaissance platform, now the U.S. Marine Corps wants to do the same with its fleet of V-22 Osprey tiltrotors. With the Corps’ new mantra of putting a sensor and weapon on every one of its aerial platforms in order to achieve digital...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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