After more than eight years now since my first airing the topic on Pprune , no sign of a stealth Blackhawk..
Such a platform would have been a reasonable justification for exonerating any Pakistani agency involvement, were it to exist practicably as part of an extremely sensitive and very high value operation politically in the area.
It was key to the operation that Pakistani involvement be plausibly denied, Indeed such an admission could be seen to jeopardize other area ops.Any cooperation would have to have been covert for pretty obvious reasons..
The USA has thrown helicopters away deliberately in the past on sensitive ops (admittedly for different reasons) . so that might have spurred the germ of the idea-even dumping a discontinued prototype .
Following years of silence Imran Kahn has now recently guardedly stated that there was Pakistani intelligence involvement in the operation, contrary to initial statements at the time of the op from the USA. .
There are no known operational stealth american helicopters to this day, neither do they seem to be in the offing in the near future. .
So let' s now get back to the B-21 shall we? (and apologies for the diversion)