Is the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey a safe aircraft? The very fact the question has been asked so often, and with such urgency, is ...

50 Cal machine gun Range: 500 nm Payload: 24 troops Crew: Four (pilot, copilot and two flight engineers) The MV-22 Osprey is the primary assault support aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.

The V-22 Osprey fleet are not allowed to fly for more than half an hour from the landing airfield months after the US military lifted the grounding order on the aircraft, according to local reports.

With a price tag of about $84 million, the V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft. The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like ...