The V-22 Osprey has shown it can fire missiles in rockets forward, a capability that will allow the tilt-rotor aircraft to deploy faster without needing the protection of other armed aircraft, manufacturing partners Bell Boeing said Tuesday. Bell Helicopter, a division of Textron [TXT], and Boeing [BA] conducted the tests at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Ariz., last month, and said the demonstrations show the V-22 can be equipped with a variety of weapons to shoot forward. “We’ve…
