Okinawa hates the Mv-22 Osprey

The Mv-22 Osprey is a piece of sh----t U.S. military aircraft mainly used by the United States Marines which has a long history of falling out of the sky instead of flying in it. Given the weakness of Japan's government and it's inability to tell the American's to piss-off the Mv-22 Osprey will be deployed in Okinawa despite the objections of its citizens.

Tens of thousands of people rallied on Okinawa and outside the Diet building in Tokyo on Sunday against the deployment of U.S. Osprey military aircraft after a series of accidents elsewhere involving the planes.
Protesters demanded the United States and Japan immediately scrap plans to deploy 12 MV-22 Ospreys at the Futenma base on Okinawa and shut down the Futenma base in the crowded city of Ginowan.

 “We refuse to accept a deployment of Osprey that has already proven so dangerous,” said Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima. “Who is going to take responsibility if they crash onto a populated neighborhood?”

Controversy

The V-22's development process has been long and controversial, partly due to its large cost increases.^[49] The V-22's development budget was first planned for $2.5 billion in 1986, then increased to a projected $30 billion in 1988.^[31] As of 2008, $27 billion had been spent on the Osprey program and another $27.2 billion will be required to complete planned production numbers by the end of the program.^[24]

Its [The V-22's] production costs are considerably greater than for helicopters with equivalent capability—specifically, about twice as great as for the CH-53E, which has a greater payload and an ability to carry heavy equipment the V-22 cannot... an Osprey unit would cost around $60 million to produce, and $35 million for the helicopter equivalent.

—Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2002.^[50]

The V-22 squadron's former commander at Marine Corps Air Station New River, Lieutenant Colonel Odin Lieberman, was relieved of duty in 2001 after allegations that he instructed his unit that they needed to falsify maintenance records to make the plane appear more reliable.^[24][51] Three officers were later implicated in the falsification scandal.^[49]
The aircraft is incapable of autorotation to make a safe landing in helicopter mode if both engines fail. A director of the Pentagon's testing office in 2005 said that if the Osprey loses power while flying like a helicopter below 1,600 feet (490 m), emergency landings "are not likely to be survivable". But Captain Justin "Moon" McKinney, a V-22 pilot, says there is an alternative, "We can turn it into a plane and glide it down, just like a C-130".^[46] A complete loss of power would require the failure of both engines, as one engine can power both proprotors via interconnected drive shafts.^[52] While vortex ring state (VRS) contributed to a deadly V-22 accident, the aircraft is less susceptible to the condition than conventional helicopters based on flight testing.^[5] But a GAO report stated the V-22 to be "less forgiving than conventional helicopters" during this phenomenon.^[53] In addition, several test flights to explore the V-22's VRS characteristics in greater detail were canceled.^[54] The Marines now train new pilots in the recognition of and recovery from VRS and have instituted operational envelope limits and instrumentation to help pilots avoid VRS conditions.^[31][55]
With the first combat deployment of the MV-22 in October 2007, Time Magazine ran an article condemning the aircraft as unsafe, overpriced, and completely inadequate.^[46] The Marine Corps responded by arguing that much of the article's data were dated, obsolete, inaccurate, and reflected expectations that ran too high for any new field of aircraft.^[56]

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