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Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 18:51
by james84

Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 19:13
by MIKE JG
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.

Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 23:50
by Victory103
Does look too small, but I need to see the whole side profile.

Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 08 Aug 2012, 00:52
by MIKE JG
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.

Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 08 Aug 2012, 02:06
by reconmercs
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.

Re: Maybe this is the stealth helo used in the Bin Laden raid?

Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 00:45
by miljan
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.