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In early March 2024 the US and Japan resumed flights of the V-22 with revised maintenance and pilot training focuses but no changes to the aircraft. [85] [86] The V-22 was returned to flight without equipment modifications, but investigators identified the part that failed and its failure mode. However, the accident remains under investigation.
In addition to a ground assault, 300 marines from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines and the Marine recon unit Task Force Raider dropped into the Nawzad valley via helicopters and V-22 Osprey aircraft. This was the first time the Osprey were used in combat operations in Afghanistan.
V-22 Osprey USAF video CV-22 refuels during operation Freedom Shield 23. In December 2013, three CV-22s came under small arms fire while trying to evacuate American civilians in Bor, South Sudan, during the 2013 South Sudanese political crisis; the aircraft flew 500 mi (800 km) to Entebbe, Uganda, after the mission was aborted. South Sudanese ...
The V-22 Osprey can carry two dozen troops and, in some configurations, as many as 32 people, or 10,000 pounds of cargo, and fly to long ranges at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet.. The development ...
The U.S. military will take its first step in getting its V-22 Osprey back in the skies.. The news comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed a plan for a measured return to operations.
The military announced late Wednesday it was grounding all of its Osprey V-22 helicopters, one week after eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members died in a crash off the coast ...
28 July – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in a sandstorm. All five crew-members are killed. [10]17 April – A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, 95–26648, belonging to the 3-158th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade crashes on infill about 12 miles (19 km) north of Tikrit while executing an 8 ship air assault at night. 1 U.S. service member killed and 3 crew ...
The US military has lifted the grounding guidance for the military’s V-22 Osprey fleet, roughly three months after the entire fleet was grounded following a deadly Air Force Special Operations ...