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Navy/USMC

V-22 Certified On Large Deck Carriers, Exec. Says

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, May 25th, 2012

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NEW YORK--The Navy has certified the V-22 Osprey for operations on large deck aircraft carriers, the manufacturers of the tiltrotor aircraft said yesterday. The certification was completed with a latest round of testing aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) earlier this month and it could be a step forward for the Navy's version of the V-22 program that has not yet been funded for production, John Rader, the Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]-Boeing [BA] partnership's vice president for the V-22…

Congress

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Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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Congress

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