Matt Bissonnette: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know (Mark Owen) Stealth helicopter bin laden. New US Stealth Copters used in Osama Raid. From The Register today: The US special-ops troops who killed Osama bin Laden at the weekend appear to have travelled to their target in previously unknown stealth helicopters.
One of the secret choppers was disabled during the raid and blown up by the departing SEAL commandos in a largely successful attempt to prevent its technology falling into non-US hands, but surviving fragments of the tail offer intriguing clues as to the aircraft’s design. Looks like when the Seals try to destroy the disabled chopper by blowing it up. Problem is, the tail section remained somewhat intact. And from the pictures, it appears to be a never before seen “stealthy” design. The remnant tail section has more blades than a normal Blackhawk and the blades are covered by a metallic dome. Photo from iElmira.com, more photos available on The Daily Mail. Stealth Helos Used In Osama Raid. What the Secret Bin Laden Raid Helo Might Look Like. Here you have it; the artists’ renderings of what the secret helicopter that crased during the raid to kill Osama bin Laden might look like have begun to surface.
Since the only photos of the beast to emerge so far show only the tail section, the drawings are pretty much based on imagination and educated guesswork, but they’re still entertaining. The first one, found on David Cenciotti’s blog, shows a chopper (we’ll call it the Stealth Hawk) that’s so souped up it’s pretty much a brand new helo save for the size and general shape. It makes the tricked out Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk look primitive in comparison. Here’s another image found on the militaryphotos forum. It’s a bit more conservative, sticking the stealthy-looking tail found at bin Laden’s mansion onto a fairly standard H-60 airframe.
Enjoy and please send any other renderings you can find our way. One Twitter User Reports Live From Osama Bin Laden Raid. Without knowing what he was doing, Sohaib Athar, a.k.a.
@ReallyVirtual, has more or less just live-tweeted the raid in which terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday. The IT consultant resides in Abbottabad, the town where bin Laden was found and killed by a U.S. military operation. Athar first posted about events surrounding the raid 10 hours before the publication of this article, writing, "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). " He didn't realize that he'd been tweeting about a top-secret attempt to kill an internationally wanted terrorist until nine hours later.
ReallyVirtual: Helicopter hovering above... *TARGET: BIN LADEN* REAL CIA SEAL TEAM 6 GERINOMO E-KIA FOOTAGE. Osama bin Laden dead: Photo of Obama watching as special forces shoot him. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 19:46 GMT, 3 May 2011 Obama watched assault on compound housing Bin Laden in real timeSignal 'Geronimo' informed him terrorist was deadTerror chief blasted in head after refusing offer to surrender Three adults including Bin Laden's 'son' reportedly killed in raidCompound was yards from Pakistan's 'Sandhurst' military academyBody buried at sea after Saudi Arabia 'declines to take corpse'DNA tests 99.9 per cent certain man killed WAS Bin LadenU.S. embassies on alert over Al Qaeda reprisal attacks Obama and George W Bush both declare: 'Justice has been done' Hillary Clinton has her hand over her mouth in horror.
Joe Biden looks incredulous. And, sitting quietly between them, still dressed in his golf clothes, sits Barack Obama. Osama Bin Laden dead: How Navy Seals killed Al Qaeda chief near Islamabad. By David Gardner Updated: 19:55 GMT, 2 May 2011 Luxury compound was only 60 miles from Pakistan capital Islamabad40 minute shootout put an end to decade long hunt for terror chiefBin Laden refused to surrender and was eventually shot in the eyeBody had to be carried away on foot after U.S. helicopter broke down Wanted man: Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 atrocities, a carefully planned U.S. operation led to Osama bin Laden being shot dead in Pakistan Almost ten years after the horror of 9/11, Osama bin Laden must have thought he was safe.
He had moved from the remote, barren mountains on Afghanistan’s inhospitable border to a comfortable $1million mansion in one of Pakistan’s most picturesque and affluent cities. The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden. Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden.
Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft. Fifteen minutes later, the helicopters ducked into an alpine valley and slipped, undetected, into Pakistani airspace.
40 minutes of fighting, and then two fatal shots. The helicopters swooped in the dead of night, flying in formation across the lower ranges of the Himalayas, then dropping precipitously on their target, a three-storey house on an acre of land in a wealthy suburb of Abbottabad, the training ground of Pakistan's powerful military officer corps.
In one of the houses nearby, Omar Nazeer, a 30-year-old official at Pakistan's petroleum ministry, was up late, working on his laptop. As the MH-60 Black Hawks thundered overhead he gave a start, spilling coffee on to the keyboard. "Our windows were shivering because the helicopters were so close," he said. The aircraft – three or four, according to different reports – carried soldiers from the US navy's elite Seal Team Six, a highly secretive counter-terrorism unit that works closely with the CIA. Stealth UH-60 Black Hawk revealed by Death of Osama bin Laden in Operation Neptune Spear. Osama bin Laden shot dead during 40-minute raid after refusing to surrender. Pak military hid Osama in Abbottabad: Butt. Pakistani military had harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the knowledge of former president General Pervez Musharraf, former army chief General Ziauddin Butt has said.
An article on the Jamestown Foundation website, which cited Butt, said that despite denials, evidence is emerging that "elements within the Pakistani military harboured Osama with the knowledge of Musharraf and Kayani". Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is the current army cheif. Ziauddin Butt, a former army chief, told a conference on Pakistani-US ties in October 2011 that according to his knowledge then director general of Intelligence Bureau, Brigadier (retd.)