Its the new space shuttle with proton drive rotors 
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I bet there was a festive time at the I-Bar to welcome the new addition. 
(The I-Bar is the NASNI O’Club bar)
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Having read some tales from the life of a cod, I wonder if this newfangled machines gives them all that much reason to celebrate.
It looks like it needs more maintenance than the old C2 did, and has a smaller hold…
One of the issues with the C-2 COD is that it needs to land on a carrier. Great for a CVN but not for the LHAs.
Now with USS AMERICA being an F-35 carrier (no well deck), an Osprey COD makes some sense.
If I had to guess the Osprey has less speed, range, and payload compared to the C-2. However, as Hangar200 pointed out, with the Osprey you can now directly service any ship with a big enough landing pad. As to if that’s a fair trade off, only time will tell I guess. The whole thing might also be budget driven since I’m sure its currently cheaper and quicker to buy Ospreys as replacements than it is to design and test a whole new aircraft.
Not exactly NATO, as Finland dances a careful geopolitical dance around the topic…but an interesting “what if” video nevertheless.
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Dang…that ground assaults…they use live ammo and (momentarily) live targets in their exercises…tough b@stards! 
We had a Finn CDR in the J2 of our Joint Ops exercise at NWS…I was looking to see if he was in the video. He’d be and Admiral by now…good guy…kind of strict and formal…think that’s cultural.
EDIT: So how many of us want to go right now, and turn this into a DCS mission…raise your hands. 
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The new Blue Angels C-130J Fat Albert is shown in its first publicly released image… Thanks to the UK for the airframe!
“With the first photo, the team also highlighted some changes from the previous C-130T paint scheme, like the flight surfaces’ yellow tips, similarly to the team F/A-18s, two yellow stripes along the fuselage, instead of the old single stripe, and the white top changed to a tear drop design, instead of the old full white top along the entire fuselage’s length.”
More info here:
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First off, it’s about friggen time!!! Second, leave it to Navair to over complicate things by going with a used foreign bird vs just grabbing a new USMC bird off the line, or snagging one from one of the active or reserve squadrons. 
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We want JATO!! We want JATO!!!
In dutch coffeeshop slang, a jato is a really big spliff. 
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Ironically a “fat Albert” means something similar here
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Judging from the last 60 seconds of this video…dollars to donuts this is not this guy’s first day on the job…
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I hate to inform you that A) J model C-130’s are incapable of mounting JATO bottles, and B) all of the Blue Angels JATO bottles where expended years ago and they no longer do a JATO takeoff for the demo. 
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Well. Thats just boring. Health and safety ruins all the fun 
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50,000 matches will not suffice either I’m here to report.
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