The test is aimed at expanding the refueling envelope of the A400M to refuel a wide variety of NATO aircraft, and follows the ...

The CV-22 Osprey is the U.S. Air Force special operations variant of the V-22 tiltrotor transport aircraft. It features enhancements and flight control systems that enable it to operate in high ...

On 29 November 2023, an Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Osprey crashed off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan, resulting in the loss of 8 airmen. Breaking down and explaining the ...

Gear and clutch problems in the Osprey have killed more than a dozen troops in recent years, leading to groundings of the ...

This will allow the V-22 Joint Program Office to test how ... caused aircrews to cut flights short. An Air Force CV-22B Osprey also crashed off the coast of Japan in November 2023, killing eight ...

A CV-22 Osprey assigned to the U.S. Air Force's 8th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron flies over Abu Dhabi in September 2021. (Master Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf/U.S. Air Force) American ...

The remains of a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant from Massachusetts who was one of eight service members lost when a CV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan are being returned home. Skip to content ...

A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed in ... presumably killing all eight aboard. The CV-22 Osprey disappeared from Japanese Self-Defense Forces’ radar at around 2:40 p.m. on Nov.

Japan requested U.S. Forces Japan ground Osprey transport aircraft, and the JGSDF grounded its own Ospreys amid U.S. Air Force safety concerns. Civil society groups claim that the tiltrotor ...