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Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
Looks too small and the paint doesn't seem to match what we saw from that tail section that was left behind after the raid.
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Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
Does look too small, but I need to see the whole side profile.
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Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
Also that shape is very dated in stealth technology. Helos can fly with terrain masking very easily. I think their stealth measures would be more focused on noise reduction, IR reduction and the other small stuff, not so much RCS reduction.
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Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
It looks like a prop for the movie "Zero Dark Thirty", I took a couple looks at the trailer (which looks pretty good btw) and the helicopters in the trailer looks like the one the guy is standing in front of.
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Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?
However, since it’s hard to believe that anyone would post a picture of a secret chopper online posing next to it, the helicopter in the image, with some typical stealth features (including an F-117 type of nose as the one designed in 1978 for the stealth UH-60), could just be a full scale model used for a movie.
Indeed, a new movie titled Zero Dark Thirty, is due out Dec. 19. It will recall the chronicle of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks.
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