Western Japan city OKs deployment of U.S. Navy version of Osprey

The mayor of a city in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi said Tuesday he will accept the deployment of the U.S. Navy's variant of the Osprey, despite lingering safety concerns over the tilt-rotor transport aircraft.The U.S. military's stationing of the CMV-22s at the Iwakuni base will be their first deployment in Japan. MV-22s, the variant used by the Marine Corps, are deployed at the Futenma air station in Okinawa while CV-22s, used by the U.S. Air Force, operate from the Yokota base in the western suburbs of Tokyo.The CMV-22s, along with the state-of-the-art F-35C stealth fighter …READ FULL ARTICLE