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SansAnhedral 3rd May 2011 15:32

Identify this helo: Bin Laden compound
 
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1...90be1e4ac0.jpg

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2...90be1e40f0.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...84_470x423.jpg

saw these in the comments section of AvWeek blogs....supposedly this was the crashed MH60K from the UBL raid.

A 5 bladed TR on a hawk derivative would seem an awfully substantial modification.

Flap 5 3rd May 2011 16:09

How about a Commanche?

RAH-66 Comanche - Reconnaissance/Attack Helicopter - Army Technology

hoodie 3rd May 2011 16:13

That's no fan-in-fin.

Exbat 3rd May 2011 16:21

Have to agree - not a fenestron style hub. Also the tail setion looks strange for an MH60.
Notice the horizontal stab seems to have an angled plan form.
Not got a clue!!! :confused:

eivissa 3rd May 2011 16:27

Another view
 
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-2...eryV9-nldh.jpg


Update: a little wider angle
http://i54.tinypic.com/hs13tf.jpg

Exbat 3rd May 2011 16:46

Is it just me or do these two photos look different?
Eivissa's appear to have no tail rotor on the top of the fin unlike the one from Sans with the shrouded 5 blader.

SansAnhedral 3rd May 2011 17:10

Stealth Helos Used In Osama Raid

Aser 3rd May 2011 20:48

I would bet for a modified blackhawk or other TRANSPORT helicopter (not comanche), you wouldn't be hovering above the house in a combat helicopter.

Anyway... Amazing!

Regards
Aser

LowObservable 3rd May 2011 21:01

Well, that's easy - it's an...

excuse me, there's someone outside the window with a g

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Senior Pilot 3rd May 2011 22:31

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-2...eryV9-nldh.jpg

And what's left on the other side of the wall:confused:

:E

Aser 3rd May 2011 23:35

SP,
The picture from the other side...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...04_964x684.jpg
:E

SASless 4th May 2011 00:00

So what is new about "stealth" helicopters being used by the US Armed forces and CIA? There's been a long discussion about this Hughes 500 project that was used in the Vietnam War. Why would the CIA/US Military not continue in those secret efforts.

Air America's Black Helicopter

Dimitris 4th May 2011 00:32

guys I'm not a pilot, but show in some 'forums' that it might have been a decoy to convince Pakistani people that their government really didn't know. Sounds far fetched to be but I'm not flying those things...

birrddog 4th May 2011 01:13

This was NAVY Seal Team 6...

Clearly that is the lower drive unit of one of their rubber duckies outboards....

:8

Mungo5 4th May 2011 02:03

Rotate some of the photo's.. you'll see there seems to be a large fairing or housing round the TRGB, and certainly the 'dinnerplate' is echod on the vertical stab too.

Peter-RB 4th May 2011 05:48

Could be some commanche mated with the 500, to become a super stealth, so steathy that they diddnt hear the other till they mated just above GL, and the result is toasted stealth....??

to quote.. "the answer is out there" didnt this also happen in the Desert of Iran a few Decades ago.?

Peter R-B

mac oz 4th May 2011 06:34

a modify balck-sea hawk

whodictus 4th May 2011 07:05

Has anyone thought of a modifided CH 53 with that size tail boom and 5 bladed TR cann't see it being a Blackhawk.

forget 4th May 2011 08:46


I smell a rat
Can't disagree there. So where are the 'indestructable' bits?

Cows getting bigger 4th May 2011 09:53

Whatever Chuck was driving I'm guessing he needs a little practice on his confined areas. :)


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