V-22 Osprey

[Kique]

https://twitter.com/1stMAW_Marines/stat ... 8996927489

[champi]

Más contratos apurando las campanadas (30/12/2020): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2459893/

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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded an $81,082,835 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive (firm target) order (N0001921F0030) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). This order provides continued non-recurring engineering support as well as the recurring procurement of kits and installs in support of the forced retrofit fleet implementation and installation of nacelle improvements and the conversion area harness onto the CV-22 aircraft for the Air Force. This order provides engineering, production, supportability, and management support necessary to facilitate the incorporation of the improved nacelles into the fleet via forced retrofit at the depot level of maintenance for previously delivered V-22 aircraft in support of phase two of the nacelle improvements effort. Work will be performed in Amarillo, Texas (53%); Fort Worth, Texas (46%); and Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (1%), and is expected to be completed in June 2024. Fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,665,952; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $10,780,172; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $49,454,795; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $12,955,460; and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $3,226,456 will be obligated at time of award, $4,665,952 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $7,897,447 modification (P00036) to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-17-C-0015). This modification adds new scope related to the update of common configuration readiness and modernization government furnished V-22 aircraft logbooks and configuration management auto log-sets in the naval aviation logistics command management information system optimized organizational maintenance activity and logistics support representative support. This modification also provides funding for 305 flight director panels, 151 control display units, 478 enhanced standby flight indictor programmable read only memory units, as well as 45 regulated control units field programmable gate array. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (91%); and Fort Worth, Texas (9%), and is expected to be completed in November 2022. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $633,071; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,693; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,248,603; fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $3,468; and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $2,612 will be obligated at time of award, $3,468 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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El primero de los contratos, en principio no debería ir para Boeing, ya que las barquillas de los motores las fabrica Bell. En el segundo, las tornas deberían cambiar: https://sldinfo.com/2015/08/a-hybrid-ma ... cturing-2/

[champi]

Contrato para depósitos auxiliares (12/1/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2469624/

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Container Research Corp.,* Aston, Pennsylvania, is awarded an $11,539,383 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This contract provides for the procurement of up to a maximum quantity of 275 V-22 Mission Auxiliary Tank System storage containers for the Navy, Marines, Air Force and Foreign Military Sales customers. Work will be performed in Aston, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed in January 2026. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-21-D-0006).
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[evol]

¿Y donde los llevará?

[Atticus]

¿Y donde los llevará?

Creo que van internos en la zona de carga.

https://robertsonfuelsystems.com/defense/mission-auxiliary-tank-system-mats/

[champi]

Del informe DOT&E: https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub ... JBWQ%3d%3d

[champi]

Otro contrato para depósitos de combustible, aunque este es para los convencionales de las unidades japonesas (27/1/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2484774/

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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $25,523,136 modification (P00005) to cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price order N00019-20-F-0315 against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-17-G-0002. This modification adds scope for the production and delivery of nine right aft sponson fuel tank kits in support of V-22 Production Aircraft 9-17 for the government of Japan. Additionally, this modification provides development and updates to existing technical data as well as services in support of aircraft deliveries and aircrew pilot and crew chief training for the government of Japan. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, North Carolina (35%); Chiba Provence, Japan (35%); Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (20%); Stennis, Mississippi (5%); and Fort Worth, Texas (5%), and is expected to be completed in March 2024. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $25,523,136 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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Otro más para motores adicionales (29/1/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2487798/

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NAVY

Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana, is awarded a $72,874,164 firm-fixed-price modification (P00024) to previously awarded contract N00019-17-C-0081. This modification exercises an option to procure 33 production AE1107C V-22 Osprey engines; 14 for the Marine Corps and 19 for the Navy for production of MV-22 and CMV-22 tiltrotor aircraft. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in December 2022. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $39,749,544; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,041,540; and fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $22,083,080 will be obligated at the time of award, $22,083,080 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Controladora aérea civil ayuda a salvar el día a un CV-22: https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Articl ... -aircraft/

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“They were taking off on a night tactical sortie. On climb-out, the air traffic controller called the aircraft commander on the radio – ‘Hey Dusty 73, your right prop-rotor looks weird,’ she said. The crew looked out the window, and usually the three prop-rotor tip lights are in a perfect line, showing that everything is in sync, but they could see that one of the blades was not. That was enough. They came back in, landed, got a new aircraft and went back out. The maintenance team downloaded the information, and that blade was vibrating three times its limit. They did some inspections, and found a pitch link bearing that controls the blade pitch was falling apart. It had probably another 45 minutes to an hour left of life at the rate it was breaking down. If the aircraft had continued not to report, and the aircrew hadn’t noticed the vibrations, it would’ve been a catastrophic failure. That would’ve been a loss of the aircraft and crew.”

After being impounded for inspection and maintenance, the CV-22 aircraft involved was repaired and rejoined the 71st SOS fleet for student training.
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[Lepanto]

Eso no se revisa, parece que no lo miraron durante algún tiempo, para llegar a esa situación crítica.

[champi]

Más contratos (8/2/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2497472/

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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $17,852,939 modification (P00012) to a firm-fixed-priced order (N0001919F0305) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). This modification exercises an option to procure 60 MV-22 and 10 CV-22 proprotor hub spring and drive link retrofit kits; and six CV-22 modification spares kits, in support of the Marine Corps MV-22 aircraft and Air Force CV-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in February 2023. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $14,675,618; and fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $3,177,321, will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Awarded Feb. 5, 2021)
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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $12,273,267 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price order (N0001921F0090) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). This order provides non-recurring engineering services for the conversion area harness aircraft modification. Additionally, this order procures 72 conversion area harness base retrofit kits, 63 conversion area harness supplemental retrofit kits, and interim spares in support of the Marine Corps MV-22 aircraft, the Air Force CV-22 aircraft, the Navy CMV-22 aircraft, and the government of Japan V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Simpsonville, South Carolina (80%); Fort Worth, Texas (10%); Long Beach, California (7%); Austin, Texas (1%); Dallas, Texas (1%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (1%), and is expected to be completed in January 2026. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,626,985; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $1,787,911; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount $480,888; and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $1,377,483 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Awarded Feb. 5, 2021)
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[Kique]

https://twitter.com/Southwood_/status/1 ... 08706?s=20

[champi]

Creo que no se pusieron en su día, pero a finales de enero se publicaron estas imágenes del V-22 cargando un motor de F-35: https://www.facebook.com/COMVRMWING/

[Kique]

https://twitter.com/1st_helb/status/136 ... 20515?s=20

[champi]

Otro contrato más (22/2/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2511328/

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Raytheon Co., Intelligence, Information and Services, Indianapolis, Indiana, is awarded a $14,921,191 modification (P00014) to previously awarded cost reimbursable, cost-plus-fixed-fee order N00421-19-F-0531 issued under basic ordering agreement N00019-15-G-0003. This modification increases the scope and provides updates to the CV-22 mission planning system to support the suite of integrated radio frequency countermeasures. Additionally, this modification provides capability defect package problem reports in support of the V-22 software support activity. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in September 2022. Fiscal 2020 procurement (defense wide) funds in the amount of $758,908 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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[evol]

¡¡¡Mira que me gustan los convertiplanos!!!. Como me gustaria ver unos cuantos de estos en la Armada, pero ya sé que son "sueños húmedos"...