Trying to get the military services to agree on how to airlift themselves around a battlefield has been all but impossible. Now a military advisory panel has weighed in with their recommendations: the Pentagon should develop a new hybrid aircraft.
"The best single fit for a tactical ground combat support aircraft is one that combines elements of both rotary- and fixed wing wing technology in a hybrid aircraft," the Defense Science Board report says.
Another tilt rotor aircraft like the controversial V-22 Osprey, only with an engine designed for heavy lift? Not likely, and the report does acknowledge that a "single aircraft designed for such purposes is likely to be very expensive."
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