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by jryle80 2959 days ago
> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there.

I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been deployed since 2007. Not sure what "still aren't there" means.

The next generation, Bell V-280 is in active development and already made the first flight [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor