[A.A. Cunningham]

The real story is that the engines are not lasting as long as Rolls Royce projected they would. Rolls Royce is losing their shirt on the "Power By The Hour" maintenance contract that they signed and now want to renegotiate. The Marine Corps is telling Rolls Royce since they want to renegotiate the deal maybe the Corps should find a new manufacturer for the engine. This was all previously discussed on the following threads:

US Marines, Rolls-Royce still talking on V-22 engines

Marines May Seek New V-22 Engines

[A.A. Cunningham]

Here is a link to the video of the Pentagon briefing on VMM-263s deployment. Scroll down to the middle row and select Pentagon briefing.

[stylin19a]

thanks..I remember those threads

I now “see” why those statements were misleading.
It about projections/money not performance.

thanks again