V-22 Aerial Tanker Capability Slated for 2018

The Navy’s V-22 Osprey program is working toward fielding an aerial tanking capability for the Marine Corps’ MV-22B tiltrotor assault transports by 2018, the program manager said. Col. Daniel Robinson, the Navy’s program manager for the V-22 Osprey, speaking to reporters May 16 at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Md., said the “summer of 2018 is the target for this capability.”

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