My bold, yet modest proposal is simply this.
Cancel the remaining purchase of the MV-22, give the remaining slots to USAF Special Operations so that they can beef up there numbers of CV-22's...and start buying Sikorsky Battle Hawks instead.
We need a medium lift helicopter that provides true multi-mission flexibility.
The Battle Hawk fills the bill.
We already see the trend with the UH-1Y.
Instead of buying the full planned compliment of AH-1Z, the Marine Corps truncated the buy and bought additional (or is planning to) Huey's instead.
We should build on this and get Battle Hawks.
If distributed operations become a reality then we will need to get the biggest bang out of our limited number of airframes.
It only makes sense.
