Production bump could cut V-22 costs by $3 billion

Increasing the production rate of the V-22 Osprey to between 30 and 36 aircraft per year could cut unit costs of the roughly $30 million military tiltrotor by as much as 20%, resulting in total procurement savings of as much as $3 billion, Bell chairman Webb Joiner said here. The V-22 was one of the...

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