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This is the Rube Goldberg machine of covert ops, unnecessarily complicated by fuel limits, 2 nights, 2 staging locations within Iran, landing a bunch of C-130s at first site to refuel helicopters from Nimitz en route to second site. Whole thing fell apart.
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And that’s how the world now has this ugly beast of a tilt rotor: the Osprey It’s kinda ugly-beautiful though, like the A-10, the platypus or the A-7
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Did you make it to the follow-up plan? Operation Credible Sport, with it's rocket-assisted C-130 that was supposed to land in and then take-off from a football stadium is an ever better plan! A pretty clear second step in designing the mission profile of the V-22.