Why are active duty V-22 Osprey's flying over DC?

V-22 Ospreys serve multiple purposes.

Transport for personnel (whether that's Special Forces or one of your top Military generals or the President and his Cabinet).

If in this case, they are being used for bringing people in, my guess is Delta or some other special forces assigned specifically to guard and if need be, evacuate the President and his cabinet.

The other purposes are close ground support with varying weapons such as a mounted M240 belt fed machine gun, M2 Machine gun on the rear loading ramp, and/or a 12.7 mm (.50 in) GAU-19 three-barrel Gatling gun mounted. These are basically considered the "Vietnam Chinooks" but for modern day.

Really not a good sign to be seeing these deployed in the capital regardless. Considering the National Guard (and I'm assuming by Proxy the rest of the Armed forces there) were given the green light to use deadly force....

This stinks of false flag to high hell.

I could imagine they would be cumbersome for quick moves and getting out of harms way.

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I was in NoVa for two years, never saw one.

Thanks for the info, yeah, really would be overkill if it was for Biden's security that's for sure. And he's still scared, LOL, wow what a fearless leader.

This is why I'm leaning towards them being used in an offensive manner. I was the AC above your post, forgot to log in.

There's literally no way anyone is capable of dealing with any of the mounted weapons an Osprey has as a civilian. Which is what is making this give me the "False Flag" vibes.

Proof, link?

Wow, 30,000 troops, troops from PR, (Which I think might just be another country, but that's a whole 'nother thread), complete military checkpoints, it's really starting to look like WWIII.

They're complex and built in small numbers.

Thats why 50% arent working.

I doubt those are national guard.

Transport and medevac is their main duties. Long range helos basically.

because they make a hell of a mess taxiing down a boulevard .

Yeah, I'm pretty sure NG doesn't have Ospreys.

We received roughly 300+ from Puerto Rico (foreign country but we have established bases there).

You do NOT need 30k + troops in that small condensed area of DC they have shut off/locked down. I don't care what anyone says. It is completely illogical. We had 20k troops in the entire COUNTRY of Afghanistan, yet need 30k in just the part of our capital where the politicians are at? Come on lol

They want to kick shit off with a bang it seems, and they are setting the primer for that detonation if you catch my drift. I've been hearing/seeing chatter in places most don't have access to....many here have no idea what's about to come kicking us in the teeth.

PS Suggested pin for this because this is something that needs to be looked at, watched for and checked back on leading up to Jan 20th.

Last Edited by Lightning Chakra on 01/16/2021 12:38 AM

Note a V-22 can make it from DC to Guantanamo Bay without stopping for fuel.

Transport. Troops mainly. A lot of troops in DC so makes sense. However the large troop presence is fkn extreme.

They can make a good weapon platform. However you could probably take one down with a brick. Any military forces would be more stressed trying to defend those things from snipers. If you go up against a respectable military force those are suicide. One of the biggest waste of money those Osprey a lot of Boeing's crap is. The best news i heard though was those a10's getting more budget thats a better investment for a weapons platform that a10

You don't transport your average soldiers with Ospreys...
Army/Marines regularly use Chinooks. Same with National Guard.

Ospreys are used primarily for Special Forces/Military Leaders/Political Leaders.

You guys are like leftoids getting excited over fullysemiautmatic assault carbines with 100 round bannana clips. You have no idea what you are talking about.

HMX-1. Presidental helicopter squadron. Based in DC. Always there. Always flying.

There were actual videos of interesting stuff flying over DC today, but they got taken off the social media platforms super fast.

CHINESE FLAG ON TAIL

Marines have 12 ospreys M-22 in DC for moving VIPs around.

Main thing about Ospreys is yes they are no where near as effective overseas..but here? Those things move fast as hell, and can weave around buildings and other obstructions quite easily and at a great speed.

Huge fan of the A10 though. Had I gone in the military that's the job I would've wanted. Protect my brothers on the ground with that glorious BRRRRRRT.

I guess they got all the bugs worked out of them

Thats a useful fact. ;)

that is not verified and unlikely in my atpl opinion .

Are they really anticipating so many protesters showing up? Seems like they have more than enough troops already. Strange..

Great find OP!

These are presidential birds, assigned to business of the office of the president/vice president.

Good news is DC is where these birds are expected to operate. They also made trips up my way in NJ when trump was in bedminster.

An air assault would be insane optics
when there's 30k troops on the ground.

This smells like Trump trolling.

He's daring Biden to show up.

They can refuel in midair.