V-22 Panel Recommends Osprey Program be Slowed and Repaired, Not Killed

By Adam J. Hebert / April 18, 2001 at 5:00 AM
The Panel to Review the V-22 Program will recommend to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the Osprey program be put into a "minimum sustainable production rate" until a long list of deficiencies can be corrected, but will not call for the troubled program to be canceled, the panel decided today. The V-22 needs better safety features, maintenance and support improvements and better training -- but has no inherent defects that would prevent it from becoming a valuable system, the panel...

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