Boeing Helicopters manufactures and integrates the fuselage, cockpit, avionics, and flight controls. Bell Helicopter manufactures and integrates the wing, nacelles, rotors, drive system, tail surfaces, and aft ramp, as well as integrates the Rolls-Royce engines and performs final assembly. Work was split evenly between Bell and Boeing. The JVX aircraft was designated V-22 Osprey on 15 January 1985 by that March, the first six prototypes were being produced, and Boeing Vertol was expanded to handle the workload. Being the only proposal received, a preliminary design contract was awarded on 26 April 1983. Bell partnered with Boeing Vertol to submit a proposal for an enlarged version of the Bell XV-15 prototype on 17 February 1983.

Contractors were encouraged to form teams. Interest was expressed by Aérospatiale, Bell Helicopter, Boeing Vertol, Grumman, Lockheed, and Westland. A request for proposals was issued in December 1982 for preliminary design work. The JVX combined requirements from the USMC, USAF, Army and Navy.

The Navy and USMC were given the lead in 1983. The Office of the Secretary of Defense and Navy administration opposed the tiltrotor project, but congressional pressure proved persuasive. Without replacement, the USMC and the Army merging was a lingering threat, akin to President Truman's proposal following World War II. Recognizing that a concentrated force was vulnerable to a single nuclear weapon, airborne solutions with good speed and range allowed for rapid dispersal, and their CH-46 Sea Knights were wearing out. The defining mission of the USMC has been to perform an amphibious landing the service quickly became interested in the JVX program.

Department of Defense began the JVX aircraft program in 1981, under U.S. The failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the Iran hostage rescue mission, in 1980 demonstrated to the United States military a need for 'a new type of aircraft, that could not only take off and land vertically but also could carry combat troops, and do so at speed.' The U.S. DevelopmentĮarly concept illustrations of V-22 Origins Navy planned to use the CMV-22B for carrier onboard delivery duties beginning in 2021. Since entering service with the Marine Corps and Air Force, the Osprey has been deployed in transportation and medevac operations over Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Kuwait. Air Force (USAF) fielded its version of the tiltrotor, the CV-22B, in 2009. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) began crew training for the MV-22B Osprey in 2000 and fielded it in 2007 it supplemented and then replaced their Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knights. The V-22 first flew in 1989 and began flight testing and design alterations the complexity and difficulties of being the first tiltrotor for military service led to many years of development. The Bell Boeing team jointly produces the aircraft. A partnership between Bell Helicopter and Boeing Helicopters was awarded a development contract in 1983 for the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program to develop an innovative transport aircraft with long-range, high-speed, and vertical-takeoff capabilities, and the Joint-service Vertical take-off/landing Experimental (JVX) program officially commenced in 1981. In 1980, the failure of Operation Eagle Claw (during the Iran hostage crisis) underscored that there were military roles for which neither conventional helicopters nor fixed-wing transport aircraft were well-suited. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing ( VTOL) and short takeoff and landing ( STOL) capabilities.

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