The V-22 Osprey is a highly versatile aircraft that experienced a significant rise in serious accidents in 2023 and 2024, the GAO reported Friday.
The military will be resuming V-22 flights with the understanding that “catastrophic failures due to inclusions is as high as seven per million flight hours”—compared to the standard of one per ten ...
The Pentagon’s troubled V-22 Osprey program recorded more serious accidents in each of the last two fiscal years than the average during any of the previous eight years, congressional auditors said, ...
CMV-22 Osprey, assigned to the ‘Sunhawks’ of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50, sits on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Aug. 13, ...
The Defense Department has struggled to fix issues with the tiltrotor V-22 Osprey, which has experienced higher-than-average accident rates and a string of fatal crashes in recent years. (MC3 Amber ...
U.S. sailors assigned to the USS Comstock guide a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during takeoff in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 8, 2025. (Sgt. Trent A. Henry/U.S. Marine Corps) On the heels of 12 major ...
Congress' probe into the safety of the military's V-22 Osprey last summer following multiple deadly crashes has been stalled for nearly a year, angering Gold Star family members who lost loved ones ...
Long-running mechanical, faulty metallic alloys in the Prop-Rotor Gear Box and lack of synergy between the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have compounded the V-22 Osprey’s troubles. Faulty ...
CAN DO. GOOD, GOOD, GOOD. YEAH, WE SUIT UP MARINE STYLE FOR A RIDE LIKE NO OTHER. A FLIGHT ON THE V 22 OSPREY. A UNIQUE SHAPE WITH UNIQUE ADVANTAGES. THE OSPREY IS AN ASSAULT SUPPORT AIRCRAFT SO IT ...