Osprey MV-22 version replaces the C-2A Greyhound US Navy

CMV-22B Osprey: In service since 1966, the C-2A “Greyhound” is an embedded transport plane, equipped with two turboprop engines, and service in the US Navy only.

Developed based on the E-2 “Hawkeye”, the “Greyhound” is a highly useful device since it allows to carry, thanks to its access ramp at the back, 4 536 kg, or, 26 military or 12 stretchers for casualty evacuation from an aircraft carrier sailing in the sea and a base which is on the mainland.

But in a few years, the US Navy will withdraw its aircraft fleet in the last thirty-five “Greyhound” still in service because of their age, although they are widely used to resupply the forces which use the gate -avions engaged in an operation.

In order to replace this type of aircraft, the Naval Air Systems Command revealed in a press release issued February 3, 2016, a new version of the V-22 Osprey Boeing and Bell would be produced.

Commonly called Carrier Onboard Delivery, this new version will be designated CMV-22B Osprey and have the same tasks that are currently assigned to the C-2A still in service. If Osprey already providing transport missions for the US Navy, they had no official name and were simply called “Navy variant”.

With this formalization, the US Navy plans to develop CMV-22B based on the MV-22B, which is a version used by the US Marine Corps and embarked on amphibious ships, helicopter carriers as at the image of our PCBs in France.

If the design is basically the same, the Naval Air Systems Command says in its press release that the CMV-22B version will have three main changes. The first includes the addition of larger reservoirs that will allow greater autonomy in theft of these devices, which is convenient to join an aircraft carrier that can be quite far from the coast. The second change sees the integration of a high frequency radio on aircraft avionics, and finally, the third and latest addition includes the installation of a “public address system”, which are actually speakers .

According to official information provided, the US Navy plans to buy forty-four versions of the CMV-22B Osprey with its manufacturer. Production of the first aircraft is expected to begin in 2018, and the first units should arrive in force from 2020.

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