Navy Planning To Use Osprey For Carrier Onboard Delivery During Fall Exercise (Updated)

By Justin Doubleday / August 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect information received subsequent to publication from the Navy that the upcoming exercise involving the Osprey will occur at some point this fall, not in the wintertime as previously stated by Navy officials.) The Navy will put the tiltrotor V-22 Osprey aircraft through its first full-scale trial as the primary logistics connector for carrier strike groups during an exercise later this year, according to the head of naval aviation. The exercise...

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