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Another update of DID's 'CH-53K: The U.S. Marines' HLR Helicopter'... is again publicly available (briefly ?) at
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...-updated-01724
DID has published a free updated report on the V-22 Osprey at: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...Program-04823/
Its ‘Contracts and Key Events’ section refers to fallout from the April 2010 crash of a V-22 in Afghanistan, at:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012...d-general/all/
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See http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...rotors-392483/The USA has agreed to sell six Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft to Israel, but US officials do not say which version of the aircraft Israel will receive.
In my opinion Israeli procurement of the precariously arranged V-22 Osprey is foolish. However, Israel receives about $US2 billion in military assistance from the USA each year. So the V-22s will come cheap although operating them is likely to prove costly.
Any force that paid real dollars for V-22s would seem doubly foolish, or simply stupid.
Israel has decided to cancel its (provisional) order for six V-22s and intends to use the freed-up (military assistance) funds to instead procure more Namer heavy APCs.
See http://www.janes.com/article/45442/i...ers-over-v-22s
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