Bell MV-75 Valor (aka V-280)

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Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS): The 82nd Airborne Division’s Critical Care Flight Paramedics Shape Future MEDEVAC Aircraft Design

The 82nd Airborne Division provides vital feedback on future MEDEVAC designs, enhancing Army's medical evacuation capabilities for better patient care.
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FORT LIBERTY, NC – Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division provided essential feedback on the future Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) Cabin’s design within the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) requirements from Nov. 12 through Nov. 22. As part of a Special User Evaluation (SUE), Critical Care Flight Paramedics (CCFP) of 3-82 General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade and Combat Medics of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division provided feedback and suggestions as their teams conducted various scenarios within the Future MEDEVAC Cabin Technical Demonstrator (FMC-TD).

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RavenOne said:
Welcome to the MV-75 as the army new designation.

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> army program

> won it's competition

> finally got a name

So they'll cancel it like 8 months down the line, lol.

Jokes aside, why is it MV and not CV or UV? The MV-22 belong to the USMC IIRC.
 
If long held stories are true, the M in MV-22 was not for “Marines” but was to differentiate the designation from CV-22 which was the hull number of the USS Independence … although I’ve never known how much credence to give that considering that ship was scuttled almost 4 decades before Osprey flew.
 
HaveVoid said:
If long held stories are true, the M in MV-22 was not for “Marines” but was to differentiate the designation from CV-22 which was the hull number of the USS Independence … although I’ve never known how much credence to give that considering that ship was scuttled almost 4 decades before Osprey flew.
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M is for Multi-mission, but 75 makes no sense. According to https://designation-systems.net/usmilav/missing-mds.html the next number in the V sequence 26. For H it's 74, but it's not a helicopter.
 
yasotay said:
75 was decided upon because 1775 was the year that the Continental Army was formed under General George Washington.
The DoD appears to have yet to decide on which American native tribe to request permission to name the aircraft after.
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Huh. Then be done with the innanity and just call it the MV-1775A. As far as the tribe, I like "Aniyvwiya". Can't pronounce it. But I like it.
 
yasotay said:
75 was decided upon because 1775 was the year that the Continental Army was formed under General George Washington.
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Yet another reason to not follow the MDS, I see...

*migraine salute*



yasotay said:
The DoD appears to have yet to decide on which American native tribe to request permission to name the aircraft after.
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Still hoping for Crow, but I'm expecting to be disappointed.



shin_getter said:
Ok, now that this is a sure thing:

What specialized equipment do you think will be designed for the platform? Everything from weapon pods to special motor vehicles designed to fit?
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Very little. The only thing I'm expecting to be custom is any drop tanks.
 
shin_getter said:
Ok, now that this is a sure thing:

What specialized equipment do you think will be designed for the platform? Everything from weapon pods to special motor vehicles designed to fit?
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Given that the program has been pushed to production 2 years ahead of schedule I suspect much of the associated bits will have to wait.
The Vice Chief of Staff basically said as much. Get the thing in the air, learn how to fly and fight it, then we will improve it.
 
yasotay said:
75 was decided upon because 1775 was the year that the Continental Army was formed under General George Washington.
The DoD appears to have yet to decide on which American native tribe to request permission to name the aircraft after.
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I'm quite sure that's a retroactive justification.

In reality, they're numbering it like it was a helicopter, but designating it like a tilt rotor.
 
TomS said:
I'm quite sure that's a retroactive justification.
In reality, they're numbering it like it was a helicopter, but designating it like a tilt rotor.
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Agreed. It reminds me of the USAAF's choice of the P-75 number back in 1944, allegedly because it evoked the .75 mm cannon of old... (in fact they skipped P-74 because someone wanted a "good, round number"...)
 
yasotay said:
75 was decided upon because 1775 was the year that the Continental Army was formed under General George Washington.
The DoD appears to have yet to decide on which American native tribe to request permission to name the aircraft after.
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With the current admin, I'm giving good odds they name it the "Pilgrim."
 
Kind of a what if, but if this nacelle design works (no reason it shouldn't) does anyone think it might be worth it to refit the v-22 with the same type of nacelle? No hot exhaust blasting straight down, engines not having to operation in the vertical...
 
yasotay said:
75 was decided upon because 1775 was the year that the Continental Army was formed under General George Washington.
The DoD appears to have yet to decide on which American native tribe to request permission to name the aircraft after.
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They could follow the example of it's cousin, the V-22 and name it after a birb. MV-75 Buzzard or something like that.
 
EmoBirb said:
They could follow the example of it's cousin, the V-22 and name it after a birb. MV-75 Buzzard or something like that.
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That would go against Army naming policy, which has been consistent in picking Indian tribe names for over 65 years now.
 
Stargazer said:
That would go against Army naming policy, which has been consistent in picking Indian tribe names for over 65 years now.
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That would go against Army naming policy, something that has now repeatedly happened over the past decades.

It's to be seen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not following previous trends, especially given it's tiltrotor nature
 
I wonder if anything under the Trump administation would be named after a minority, even if its tradition.
 

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