You Know That $100 Million Dollar MV-22? It Only Works 54.3% Of The Time

[unhappycamper]

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unhappycamper summary of this article: For $100 million dollars, I would have expected to get a little more use than 54.3%. Just lose this loser, guys.







The CV-22 Osprey ended fiscal 2010 with a mission-capable rate of 54.3 percent, fourth-worst in the service.


Osprey availability still hovering at 50 percent
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Nov 29, 2010 5:43:01 EST

The CV-22 Osprey ended fiscal 2010 with a mission-capable rate of 54.3 percent. On any given day, from Oct. 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, half of the special operations tilt-rotor aircraft couldn’t fly their full range of missions. The Osprey’s fiscal 2009 mission-capable rate was 50.1 percent, the lowest ever.

[n2doc]

1. but...but...it works 100% of the time in my video game!

And it looks so cool in the recruiting adverts, too!

:sarcasm:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

2. It's the "Sex Panther" of tilt-rotor aircraft.

"54.3% of the time, it works every time."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. "What has wings that go up and down and flies only when the sun shines?"

A joke about another FUBAR plane the F8U Corsair that the Navy/Marines bought as an "All-Weather" fighter.

[gratuitous]

4. Spluh!

You want to risk damaging a hundred million dollar piece of fine machinery on something as inconsequential as a mission? That's not why it was commissioned, you know.

[Xicano]

5. Works half the time? That only means we buy twice as many

and we are operational 100% of the time.

:sarcasm: