The helicopter that lost power and hard-landed in the Bin Laden raid was something that nobody in the general public knew about, even the aviation gurus. They quickly evaluated the technology as best they could from the grainy photos of the destroyed chopper and concluded:
"It was a secretly developed stealth helicopter, probably a highly modified version of an H-60 Blackhawk. Photos published in the Daily Mail and on the Secret Projects board show that the helicopter's tail features stealth-configured shapes on the boom and tip fairings, swept stabilizers and a "dishpan" cover over a non-standard five-or-six-blade tail rotor. It has a silver-loaded infra-red suppression finish similar to that seen on some V-22s."
Kinda shows you how important this mission was, that they would risk exposing cutting-edge technology to get it done. If this chopper hadn't crash-landed and been blown up by the SEALs, we still wouldn't know about it.
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