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The U.S. military grounded its entire fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft on Wednesday one week after a deadly crash off the coast of Japan killed eight airmen.

Shift5 has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to enhance the cyber defenses of the service branch’s wheeled precision strike weapons system. The Rosslyn, Virginia-based cybersecurity firm said Tuesday it will integrate digital anomaly detection capabilities into the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System under the award.

US Naval Air Systems Command has revealed that it is instituting a grounding bulletin for all V-22 Osprey variants.

The grounding of all Osprey tilt-rotors follows a fatal crash off the coast of a Japanese island that may be tied to a "materiel failure."

Air Force Special Operations Command said that "preliminary investigation information" into a Nov. 29 crash that killed eight "indicates a potential materiel failure caused the mishap, but the underlying cause of the failure is unknown at this time."

The US Air Force (USAF) and US Navy (USN) grounded their respective V-22 fleets on 6 December, the services said in separate statements. The grounding follows the 29 November crash of a USAF CV-22 near Yakushima, Japan. “Preliminary investig...

Four accidents involving the V-22 Osprey in less than two years have killed 20 military personnel.

The U.S. Military has grounded its fleet of Bell Boeing V-22 Ospreys following the fatal crash of a CV-22 near Yakushima, Japan, on Nov. 29.

Ospreys grounded indefinitely after preliminary report on Japan accident

The US military will be grounding its entire fleet of V-22 Ospreys, a week after the crash incident in Japan resulted in the deaths of all eight aboard