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1 posted on 05/05/2011 6:56:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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AVIATION PING

Army Times

Mission helo was secret stealth Black Hawk

By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 4, 2011 18:07:39 EDT

The helicopters that flew the Navy SEALs on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden were a radar-evading variant of the special operations MH-60 Black Hawk, according to a retired special operations aviator

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/


2 posted on 05/05/2011 6:59:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Whatever the Pakistanis get will end up in China. I hope it won’t do them a huge amount of good.


3 posted on 05/05/2011 7:01:12 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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Army Times

Mission helo was secret stealth Black Hawk

By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 4, 2011 18:07:39 EDT

The helicopters that flew the Navy SEALs on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden were a radar-evading variant of the special operations MH-60 Black Hawk, according to a retired special operations aviator

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/


4 posted on 05/05/2011 7:01:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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It’s okay to show photos of a stealth copter but not a dead Bin Laden.


5 posted on 05/05/2011 7:05:48 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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I would love to know how you make the rotor disk of a helicopter stealthy. I'm not saying they can't do it, but as a physics problem it is daunting. A spinning propeller is quite possibly the least stealthy object in the universe. At some point in the cycle it is bound to be at the right angle to bounce a radar wave back at the transmitter. And most radar absorbing materials tend to be heavy, and a rotor blade by its very nature has to be as low mass as possible.

There is so much cool stuff out there that we won't find find out about for a decade or more.
6 posted on 05/05/2011 7:06:56 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: KeyLargo

Looks more like a drone to me.

Seems to small to carry anyone.


8 posted on 05/05/2011 7:09:32 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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Sorry, Ain’t a copter, dude. Everyone knows that Bin Laden’s compound was the tallest building in the area. It was a cell phone tower...That’s how he paid the rent each month. The antenna fell off the roof when they blew up the copter..


12 posted on 05/05/2011 7:18:27 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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This sounds like John Lovitt? from Saturday night fame. The lie keeps getting bigger and his trademark is “thats the ticket”


15 posted on 05/05/2011 7:23:59 AM PDT by winodog
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To: KeyLargo

Whatever it is (was) everyone knows it can be shot down probably w/ little effort.


17 posted on 05/05/2011 7:26:26 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: KeyLargo

So how much will we have to pay Pakistan to get this back?


20 posted on 05/05/2011 7:27:21 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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So the “unmarked helicopters” of XFiles fame have returned?


28 posted on 05/05/2011 7:48:06 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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Since it looks grey would it be a Greyhawk?
47 posted on 05/05/2011 9:12:13 AM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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This was my only fear, that we’d give up something we’d regret later...


54 posted on 05/05/2011 11:13:18 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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Black Hawk Down- China Up?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2718526/posts


63 posted on 05/11/2011 5:20:24 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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