Stealth Blackhawk Used In Bin Laden Raid?

Av Web ^ | May 4, 2011 | Glenn Pew

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Stealth Blackhawk Used In Bin Laden Raid?

May 4, 2011 By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor

Images of what appears to be the tail-rotor of one the helicopters used in Sunday's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound at Abbottabad, Pakistan, are hitting the internet, and may be a glimpse at something special. The parts don't appear to come from the standard military catalogue. According to the Army Times, the aircraft "were a radar-evading variant of the special operations MH-60 Blackhawk." That aircraft has hard edges like those on the F-117 Nighthawk and incorporates similar low-observable technology.

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So what brings you to Free Republic Vawn?

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With military training base approx. a mile away they probably they were trying to avoid “waking up the natives”.

After reading through some of those real-time twitter posts that were occurring during the raid, it's pretty clear that everybody knew what was going on. Obviously the helicopters weren't stealthy from a sound point of view, given that people were twitter posting in real time about them, so I'm going with the theory that the Pakistani military realized what was going on and wisely decided to imitate Baghdad Bob and pretend like Americans weren't running around the area until the raid was over.

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Black Hawk Down- China Up?

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