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The tilt-rotor aircraft can take off like a helicopter but fly like a plane, enabling it to fly faster and higher than traditional helicopters.
This means it is less likely to be shot down.
The Osprey can fly approximately 15,000 feet higher, approximately 115 mph faster, and over 100 miles further carrying the same load as the Sea Knight.
The CH-46 is also used for amphibious assault, but also for purely land based missions.
If you have an aircraft in the Osprey that can fly both higher and faster in the accomplishment of those missions, you have an aircraft that would be less likely to be able to be shot down by an enemy armed with something that can reach the Ch46, but may not reach the Osprey.
Right on popeye. The fact is that most of the coalition casualties are by these same nationalistic groups who are now fighting Al Qaeda. The Islamic Army of Iraq is made up of mostly Sunnis but also a reasonable number of Shias. They're Saddam's old men, men from the Special Republican Guard and Fayadeen. The IAI is one of the most powerful insurgent groups operating in Iraq, and they and other groups like the 1920's Revolutionary Brigades and Swords of Revenge are causing most of the US casualties in Iraq. They now want to destroy Al Qaeda, a group that causes most of the civilian casualties in Iraq. So once Al Qaeda is either killed or severely weakned, these nationalistic groups will once again turn their guns on the US and coalition. So arming these groups is probably one of the most insane ideas out of all the insane ideas since the war started. I think the most the US should do is just provide them air or ground support in their operations against Al Qaeda, but actually providing weaponry to them is not a good decision.
They refer to themselves as jihadists all the time. They were the ones that released the Juba sniping videos as well. As a matter of fact, they are the ones that have revolutionized guerilla warfare by recording and displaying their operations online, Al Qaeda caught on quite later. They aren't very trustworthy and shouldn't be provided with weaponry.
szbd
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OK, this is a good point, fly higher and faster. Let's see their performance. Is army getting the same thing? Or any plan?
Geee, of course there's nobody can be trust by US in iraq. Look what US have done to iraq, how could anybody wish to really coorperate with US. I'm wondering if US understands the real situation in iraq. It is just impossible to create a representitive government when nobody wants to be represented.
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All those purple fingers...several times...and under the threat of death to the Iraqis who voted by the same jihadists...tell a different story. But let's not go there in this dicsussion, it will end up just getting the thread closed.