Great find! I hear they are going to use these once they roll out the first CMVT squadrons at the newly opened NAS Banana River!
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CMV-22B Osprey Rollout
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V-22 is a joint program. The PMA is staffed with USAF, USMC, and USN military and USAF and USN civilians. The only real difference between an MV and a CV are mission systems. For instance, the CV has a different radio config, a multi mode radar, and a different survivability suite so they have a different mission computer load. But the air vehicle differences are pretty much negligible. To this end, there are USAF and USMC cost shares for work that benefits both fleets.
The USAF has virtually no involvement in CCRAM--the commonality program. The may have a staffer somewhere with a stake in it, but they aren't putting their aircraft through it.
The non-SOF parts of the aircraft are nearly identical.
Sailors from “the Titans” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 are training with Marine Corps MV-22B crews and using Marine Corps-owned Ospreys to earn qualifications and understand how the aircraft handles.
“The most eye-opening thing for me was flying at night without goggles and flying in formation and landing in the middle of a forest clearing,” Cmdr. Trevor Hermann, commanding officer of VRM 30, told USNI News in a telephone interview.
“We don’t do this in a Greyhound.”
news.usni.org
“The most eye-opening thing for me was flying at night without goggles and flying in formation and landing in the middle of a forest clearing,” Cmdr. Trevor Hermann, commanding officer of VRM 30, told USNI News in a telephone interview.
“We don’t do this in a Greyhound.”
Navy Flyers Training With Marine V-22s Ahead of COD Transition - USNI News
A year ahead of delivery, the Navy is using Marine Corps-owned V-22 Ospreys to acclimate to tiltrotor aircraft operations.
news.usni.org
"Flying at night without goggles" must be a typo.Sailors from “the Titans” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 are training with Marine Corps MV-22B crews and using Marine Corps-owned Ospreys to earn qualifications and understand how the aircraft handles.
“The most eye-opening thing for me was flying at night without goggles and flying in formation and landing in the middle of a forest clearing,” Cmdr. Trevor Hermann, commanding officer of VRM 30, told USNI News in a telephone interview.
“We don’t do this in a Greyhound.”
Navy Flyers Training With Marine V-22s Ahead of COD Transition - USNI News
A year ahead of delivery, the Navy is using Marine Corps-owned V-22 Ospreys to acclimate to tiltrotor aircraft operations.
USAF has it's own way to upgrade an AMC a/c to an IAP/MCOI a/c. And they're getting Nacelle Improvements.
Sounds like the writing is on the wall for the COD guys to do more than just ass and trash.
Eh. I’ll believe it when I see the VRM ROC/POE and METL. I just really can’t see a CSG admiral or CAG turning the CODspreys loose to do cool Batman shit if it means they have to give up x number of log hits to the beach daily. The ass and trash and pony still has to get delivered, regardless of what the plane can do.
Don’t think that will happen.
Believe this has more to do with the ability to operate at logistics points other than an airport or support HADR.
Or just the fact that the Marines don't spend a lot of time flying runway to runway, so in order for the CMV pilots to get the hours they need to fill squadron flight leadership and IP billets, they have to fly the missions that are in the MV-22 syllabus.
Actual VRM-30 patch is titan/atlas shouldering the earth. I'm guessing that's a C-2 dig at the new guys in town.