Italeri V-22A Osprey

Plastic model to assemble. Detailed assembly instructions in colour. Glue and colours not included. For references on suggested colours check the profiles or visit Italeri website. Includes decals sheet for 3 versions, officially licensed Boeing product. The project of the innovative Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was set up during the 1980s but only after a long and complex development process, which lasted over twenty years, began the distribution to the operational departments of the United States Armed Forces. The Osprey is a converter equipped with two tilting engines with large tripal propellers that make it able to land and take off vertically like a helicopter and have flight and transfer performance similar to those of a conventional propeller aircraft. Thanks to its two powerful Rolls-Royce T406-AD-400 6,150 HP engines it manages to overcome 500 Km/h in horizontal flight. The United States Marine Corps is the user who employs the highest number of them by taking advantage of the V-22’s tactical and transport versatility in particular for landing support operations. The Osprey took part in its first operational missions in a war scenario in Iraq in 2008.