The aircraft selected to perform the Marine medium-lift mission will be slower than the V-22, with less range and survivability and requiring more troops to maintain and operate all of which translates into degraded performance of that mission.
Unless Secretary Aspin reverses the present so-called "Dual Track" procurement strategy for the V-22, the end result will be an aircraft which is slower and has less range than it could easily have and than it needs to perform the panoply of joint service missions for which it is required.