Wait, to be clear, the services can't have the same name of an aircraft? As in, if the V-22 variant that we purchased was the exact same copy as the USAF one, the Naval Aviator's logbooks would not reflect CV-22?
Well there's no reason they can't. It's just that each service usually has service-specific versions with slightly differing avionics and such. It sounds like the CODsprey will be substantially modified from the Marine version, and definitely different from all the Batman shit the AFSOC planes have. There's not really any reason you couldn't call it the CV-22C, though. Except I guess the AF has dibs on the CV series.
The only U in recent USN/USMC service in recent years is the UH-1 Huey.
Well there's no reason they can't. It's just that each service usually has service-specific versions with slightly differing avionics and such. It sounds like the CODsprey will be substantially modified from the Marine version, and definitely different from all the Batman shit the AFSOC planes have. There's not really any reason you couldn't call it the CV-22C, though. Except I guess the AF has dibs on the CV series.
Yup. I don't know the exact date of the change, but from origination through at least 1999, the 60 programs were called:The Multi-mission designator (M for Navy/Marine Corps) is for one thing: money. Put a few other secondary missions on it, make some promises about how its ROC/POE will be written, and boom: multi-mission aircraft. If doing so makes one more senator feel better about the money, or puts one more gadget factory in a representative's district, you've got yourself an aircraft.
The Multi-mission designator (M for Navy/Marine Corps) is for one thing: money. Put a few other secondary missions on it, make some promises about how its ROC/POE will be written, and boom: multi-mission aircraft. If doing so makes one more senator feel better about the money, or puts one more gadget factory in a representative's district, you've got yourself an aircraft.
Yup. I don't know the exact date of the change, but from origination through at least 1999, the 60 programs were called:
- SH-60R Seahawk (LAMPS)
- CH-60S VERTREP Marinized Blackhawk
I get why the Sierra became MH with the addition of HS and other missions, but the Romeo could have stayed SH.
On a side note, I bet many HSC dudes would be pained to know that the OSI font is called "LAMPS" by Lockheed Martin.
Or just new T/M/S period. Air wings don't have a squadron each of F/A-24As, F/A-24Bs, and EA-24Cs. Nor are they to be augmented by the F-25 . . .Similarly why the Navy avoids new-letter designations for aircraft changes, e.g., why there's 4 to 6 different (depending how you count it) versions of the E-2C. The Group 0 was vastly different in capability and equipment from the HE2K. It's easier to sell Congress on an 'upgrade to an existing model' than a 'new airplane'.
Yup. I don't know the exact date of the change, but from origination through at least 1999, the 60 programs were called:
- SH-60R Seahawk (LAMPS)
- CH-60S VERTREP Marinized Blackhawk
In 2003-2004, the community put out a request to the fleet for naming changes.