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Marines To Standardize, Upgrade Diverse V-22 Osprey Fleet

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Marines To Standardize, Upgrade Diverse V-22 Osprey Fleet
Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, load on to a V22 Osprey during Steel Knight 17 at Yuma, Ariz., Dec. 7, 2016. Steel Knight is an annual exercise led by the 1st Marine Division that spans the Western United States and California coast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Frank Cordoba/Released)

The Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey has been in such high demand that the service has been modifying and tweaking the aircraft on the fly as they came off the production line, resulting in 77 different configurations of the aircraft being rushed into combat zones.With 263 total Ospreys in its fleet, every fourth one is substantially different from the previous three, according to Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis. The dramatic divergence in models was found during a recent…

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