Mission helo was secret stealth Black Hawk - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 4, 2011 18:08:39 EDT
The helicopters that flew the Navy SEALs on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden were a radar-evading variant of the special operations MH-60 Black Hawk, according to a retired special operations aviator.
The helicopter’s low-observable technology is similar to that of the F-117 Stealth Fighter the retired special operations aviator said. “It really didn’t look like a traditional Black Hawk,” he said. It had “hard edges, sort of like an … F-117, you know how they have those distinctive edges and angles — that’s what they had on this one.”
In addition, “in order to keep the ra....
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