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U.S. sailors assigned to the USS Comstock guide a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during takeoff in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 8, 2025. (Sgt. Trent A. Henry/U.S. Marine Corps) On the heels of 12 major ...

The V-22 Osprey is a joint-service, multi-mission, medium-lift rotorcraft. The V-22 is a type of aircraft known as a tiltrotor, which is a unique design for a crewed military aircraft. A tiltrotor ...

Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...

There are certain aircraft that refuse to be pigeon-holed. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is one of them. The Osprey is unique among aircraft, being something of a transformer type. It's designed to ...

CMV-22 Osprey, assigned to the ‘Sunhawks’ of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50, sits on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Aug. 13, ...

An MV-22 Osprey aircraft is used during the annual Steel Knight training exercise, Dec. 5, 2022 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. automation After a congressional hearing on Wednesday on safety concerns over ...

The Pentagon’s troubled V-22 Osprey program recorded more serious accidents in each of the last two fiscal years than the average during any of the previous eight years, congressional auditors said, ...

Longstanding and deadly mechanical problems with the V-22 Osprey have gone unaddressed for years by the joint program office, and it may take a decade to complete recommended fixes, as risks continue ...