Plastic model to assemble. Detailed assembly instructions in colour. Glue and colours not included. For references on suggested colours check the profiles or visit Italeri website. Includes decals sheet for 3 versions, officially licensed Boeing product. The project of the innovative Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was set up during the 1980s but only after a long and complex development process, which lasted over twenty years, began the distribution to the operational departments of the United States Armed Forces. The Osprey is a converter equipped with two tilting engines with large tripal propellers that make it able to land and take off vertically like a helicopter and have flight and transfer performance similar to those of a conventional propeller aircraft. Thanks to its two powerful Rolls-Royce T406-AD-400 6,150 HP engines it manages to overcome 500 Km/h in horizontal flight. The United States Marine Corps is the user who employs the highest number of them by taking advantage of the V-22’s tactical and transport versatility in particular for landing support operations. The Osprey took part in its first operational missions in a war scenario in Iraq in 2008.