MH-60G Pave Hawkmh-60 PaveHawk helicopter attack
The advanced MH-60G Pave Hawks
Eurocopter Moves One Step Closer to ‘Whisper Mode’
Posted on 05/04/2011 5:10:31 PM PDT by Jewbacca
Before an elite team of U.S. Navy SEALs executed a daring raid that took down Osama bin Laden, the commandos were able to silently sneak up on their elusive target thanks to what aviation analysts said were top secret, never-before-seen stealth-modified helicopters. In the course of the operation that cost the al Qaeda leader his life, one of the two Blackhawk helicopters that carried the SEALs into bin Laden's Pakistani compound grazed one of the compound's wall and was forced to make a hard landing. With the chopper inoperable, at the end of the mission the SEALs destroyed it with explosives.
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We should have had two B-1's standing by to deliver 40 2,000lb bombs on the site as soon as the SEALs signaled they were out.
One on top of the other.
... at American universities and then work for American defense contractors...
Yes, and osama on the bottom floor didn't hear a helo crash on that wall and was unarmed....
Looks smaller than a 60 platform with shorter blades.
Almost like the roters were to spin with the speed of an Osprey.
Weird hybrid.
Shorter, thinner frame...smaller, faster blades?
And, of course, stealth angles and coatings everywhere.
Holy cow, someone captured Ahmadinejad lurking around the scene!!
Freegards
>> I, for one, am not happy that this tail section survived,
That sucks!
How would you have expected Pakistan to react to a mysterious -- but massive -- bombing raid?
The Pakis have nukes, after all. Plus, a hard on for India. Not to mention something less than a fail-safe command and control system.
Sure you want to take that chance?
SO the entire operation was actually a plant of false hitech equipment to redirect the R&D efforts of our enemies away from Whisper Mode.......
What? and kill innocent, unarmed civilians because our pilot hit a wall? Sorry Dude, I had enough trouble shooting Viet Cong who were using innocent, unarmed civilians as cover.
That’s supposed to be the same thing? Of course photos can be deceptive. Looks like the swept wing thing is separate kinda, and flipped upside down. And it seems like there are two rotors with one being more damaged than the other. Perhaps just different angles. Are there any helicopters with two rotors? I freely admit my ignorance in such matters, just relating what the pics look like from my very limited understanding.
Freegards
That is one cool looking bird.
Yes, that was a Comanche frame, not a Blackhawk frame.
Hello, im new to this forum...Ive been a h-60 maintainer both in the military and civilian sides, and I can tell you that this “STEALTH” helicopter is in fact based on an H-60, on foxnews slide show, the 5 picture shows a burned mass which is the main rotor, I can clearly see a Pitch control rod attached to the pitch horn on the main rotor, the h-60 as we all know has been around a long time now, I wouldnt put it pass the enginners to make a stealth hybrid of the basic h-60 airframe using h-60 componants.
So one is the main rotor and the other is the tail rotor?
Freegards from an ignorant Freeper
In response to the question of one is the main rotor and tail rotor, the pictures that we are seeing in the media has to be part of the tail rotor system, the mass in image 5 on foxnews is or was the main rotor system...after looking at it closer i can see the mast extension, i can see i think is an engine, under the extension is the main transmission. in the pictures where it was laying up against the wall i can see the drive shafts, the piping you see pointing up at the sky.
Thanks. Welcome to FR!
Freegards
“Its just not what you think. I am a helicopter pilot and I work for a major helicopter manufacturer. Rotor noise is reduced at the blade tips. The disc, or “Frisbee” on the tail rotor is armor to protect the linkage from rpg’s and other ground fire. The odd angles on what was left are for deflection of shrapnel. It may have the secret metallic paint, but that’s about it...it’s still just a k or l model blackhawk...sorry to burst any bubbles.”
Utter nonsense.
The disc, for one, is not beefy enough to be armored.
Plus, I’ve seen my share of stealth weaponry, and this has all the telltale obtuse angles.
A helicopter is never going to be as stealthy as a fixed-wing plane -— too many moving parts -— but it flies close to the ground, so radar sucks there anyway.
These birds flew deep into Pakistan, TO WITHIN 1000 METRES OF A MAJOR MILITARY BASE, and out and the Paki radar didn’t catch them on the way in and the jets didn’t catch them on the way out.
Not possible without some level of stealth.
The fact that any part of this bird survived to be given to the Chinese is a F-—KUP of Obamaian proportions.
MH-60G Pave Hawk“It’s got some Comanche ovetones to it.”
Of course.
This reeks of highly-modified Blackhawk, which, like the sadly abandoned Comanche, is also a Sikorsky product.
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