For example, one company widely mentioned as a potential target of activists is Textron, the Providence, Rhode Island-based industrial conglomerate that builds everything from the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor to smart cluster bombs.
And citing the deep penetration capabilities of the Osprey as an excuse for killing off the fighting vehicle in the very next paragraph after calling for an early end to tilt-rotor production sounds downright contradictory.
The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.
Most of the difficulties that have been associated with the program over the 11 years that this type of airplane has been flying have been not related to the tilt-rotor technology itself but other ancillary events that have caused mishaps.