#v-22 Osprey

[wallpapers4screen]

[thestonecuttersguild]

V-22 arrival is a show stopper. Oshkosh 2022

[auxryn]

So I was listening to a podcast about the Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and I thought, "I wonder if this thing killed more marines than the enemy."

So I did some googling and found a headline about 20 deaths between 2022 and 2023.

Now for deaths by enemy action. Fortunately it's easy to find numbers on this:

Uhhhhh. Well any number is higher than 0, soooo. Yeah. Great aircraft you have there.

.

.

Wait a minute.

The most likely things to kill you in the military are:

1. Your conscience

2. The US military's negligence directly

3. The US military's negligence indirectly because they constantly expose you to horrible carcinogens

4. ?

5. Murder most foul

6. ???

7. The enemy

8. Terrorist attack

That is pretty damning.

Don't join the military. Absolutely do not join as enlisted.

[bizarre-blorbo-bracket]

Round 1 poll 27: the V-22 Osprey from the US military vs David from the submitter's life

Propaganda under the cut:

the V-22 Osprey

First off I need to explain that I am NOT a Military Guy. I am not a Military History guy either. I dont give a shit about WII. I dont give a shit about fighter jets. I do NOT care. Normally I devote all of my vehicle obsession energy to ships. But the Osprey. God, the osprey... [takes long drag on cigarette] She's so special to me. The Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft, meaning it can essentially convert between being a helicopter and being a plane. It's shit at both. Its favorite things to do are eat money, set things on fire and crash so bad it flips over before it hits the ground. It needs so much maintenance that only around 60% of them are remotely working at any one time. I want to chew it like a baby with a teething toy. They say it can do aircraft to aircraft refueling but sometimes the rotors slap the fuel hose and it crashes BOTH aircraft. It craves human blood and the warm embrace of smacking into the ground. It is so so so cringe and fail and in 2021 one melted the helipad at a children's hospital. It's an indulgent taxpayer funded disaster made of equal parts military industrial complex, hubris, and mechanical failure, and I'm going to put one in a towel-lined box and feed it JP-8 from an eyedropper like a newborn kitten.

David

ive never met him but ive heard so many stories about him from friends about how cool he is hes like the real life equivalent of your mutual posting about a fandom your not in. david is a real person but to me he is a fandom i learned all the lore about by accident

[responsivethoughts]

V-22 Osprey. Kopp-Etchells effect, caused by dust hitting the rotor blades.

[penname-artist]

Milo Gearrey - MY BABY BOIIIIII

HE IS SO SWEET

dumping a bunch of his other arts:

IF YOU TOUCH A HAIR ON HIS BODY (or rivet on his frame) I WILL DO THE

THE MURDERING

[gshock930]

MV-22 Osprey

[triggerhappy870]

Finally got to see an osprey in person, I couldn't be happier

[nocternalrandomness]

"RUDY 35" arriving at Mesa Gateway, Arizona from NAS North Island, San Diego

[irradiate-space]

While production of the V-22 is coming to an end, we have many decades to come of tiltrotorposting!

The US Army's 2019 Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program chose the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor.

Bell sold off the BA609 program, but as the AW609 we we might see civilian eggbeaters!

There’s V-22 Ospreyposting on my dash rn so here’s a throwback to when I was working on a fusion reactor and there were constantly Ospreys flying overhead and I was low-key more worried about the things spontaneously falling out of the sky than the neutron radiation.

[usafphantom2]

Great to see the V-22’s back out in the wild yesterday!! @verticalmag

@SimonPCougill via X

[vuntes]

Half-life: Opposing Force.

Rendering in Garry’s Mod + Photoshop.

[c-130hercules]

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules over the Philippines

[starlight-distressed]

Orphaned bottle baby v-22 osprey