News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
why do they keep pushing this vehicle? ive read these articles about it sucking for like 30 years now. people inside the military, people outside the military.
how many humans have to die before we decide maybe this one isnt worth it?
What is worse is that they are going to replace the blackhawk with a VTOL, the Bell V-280 Valor.
Which is even worse, given the promise the SB-1 Defiant program was showing. I have a hard time imagining how the V-280 is supposed to land in narrow canyons or a jungle. It's wide af, and has massive propellers.
The biggest benefit to the V-280 over the V-22 is that (for now) they aren't planning to have the V-280 fold up like the Osprey, which eliminates a large amount of the mechanical complexity in the V-22.
So the size issue argument is: "If you turn it sideways, it is basically the same size as the blackhawk." Ok, fine it can land in about the same footprint. Thing is that the blackhawk can fold the rotors in so you can fit it in a confined space or for transport easier. If they can't fold the wings in...
They did simplify the tilt mechanism, instead of rotating the engine, they just bend the prop shaft. So time will tell how failure prone that is.
Because our Congressional leaders are lead brained fucking morons who sell out for cheap.
I feel like some context in time spent refining new styles of airframes historically might be relevant. Then again, if the issue is actually the design, it seems like 30 years ought to be enough to refine that or give up with current tech. I just wonder if it's actually a design flaw - we don't really get media reports about other crashes like this - I guess the closest was the Boeing 737 MAX? I think part of the issue is the numbers of dead are "inflated" relative to say the F35 because of the number of people who would be on the vehicle.
I don't know the answers to all these, it's certainly possible that any expert in military aircraft would be saying these are stupid to keep flying. I just feel like the first helicopters probably had similar times of occasional deadly crashes for instance, and yet no one is saying we should stop flying helicopters.