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Monday, September 08, 2014

Navy's new amphib highlights the future of Marine aviation

MV-22B OspreyAbout 1,500 Marines and sailors have been busily testing the capabilities of the Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship during a two-month transit in a region that rarely sees a warship of this size.

Marines and sailors have been engaging important U.S. allies in this part of the world since leaving the Mississippi shipyard in July.

Because the two aircraft elevators used to lift planes and helicopters from the hangars to the deck don’t fold, the America is too wide to sail through the Panama Canal.

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