It takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane, so it's no surprise people aren't sure what to call the CV-22 Osprey. It doesn't fit neatly into a single category, and even those who know ...

AFSOC has resumed CV-22 Osprey flight operations after a two-week grounding prompted by multiple "high clutch engagement" (HCE) incidents in the aircraft's gearbox. The root cause of the HCE issue, ...

The island chains of the Pacific aren’t just dots on a map. They’re potential choke points, surveillance platforms, and forward operating bases in any future high-end conflict — and whoever controls ...

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) grounded its entire CV-22 Osprey fleet due to recent "hard clutch engagement" incidents in the aircraft's gearbox. The U.S. Marine Corps, however, will not ...

So far, this hasn’t been a good year for the CV-22 and MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The same issue that had determined AFSOC (Air Force Special Operations Command) to ground its entire Osprey fleet earlier ...

The decision to resume CV-22 Osprey flight operations at Yokota Air Base, Japan, is based on a meticulous, data-driven approach, complemented by rigorous simulator training sessions for the crews.

The CV-22 deployment would be the first since the 2023 fatal crash and the subsequent limited operations. The MV-22 fire happened on the ground at Fairchild AFB and was quickly extinguished without ...

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing celebrate the upcoming completion of the CV-22 Program of Record for the U.S. Air Force. Bell and Boeing commemorated the V-22 Osprey production ...

The V-22 Osprey has always been a bit of an oddball among combat aircraft. Its tiltrotor engines left it in a curious corner of aviation design, neither a proper helicopter nor a conventional ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) describes the CV-22 Osprey as a machine meant to perform long-range infiltration and exfiltration, among others. That generally could mean some type of discretion is needed, ...

The remains of five service members from the Nov. 29 U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey crash off Japan’s Yakushima Island have been recovered according to an Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) ...

Bell has finished the first nacelle modifications to a US Air Force CV-22 Osprey, part of a multi-year effort to improve the maintainability of the US military’s V-22 tiltrotors. The company completed ...