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when we learned that the SEAL team that killed Osama Bin Laden used a stealth helicopter, something that no one in the world had any public success toward achie
by goatinaboat 7y ago
when we learned that the SEAL team that killed Osama Bin Laden used a stealth helicopter, something that no one in the world had any public success toward achieving
It’s more interesting that it leaked out that they crashed one of said helicopters because they ignored the mission planning advice they’d been given. How embarrassing!
- kahirsch 7y agoCould you expand on that? I've never heard about this.
- FroshKiller 7y agoThe crash happened during the bin Laden raid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden
- throw0101a 7y ago> ... because they ignored the mission planning advice they’d been given. Who is "they"? (The pilots?) Which advice was ignored? > The crash of the Blackhawk may have been, at least in part, caused by the aerodynamic deficiencies introduced to the airframe by the stealth technology add-ons.[321] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Helicopter_stealth_technology_revelations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Helic...
- goatinaboat 7y agoThey were told if you hover low over the compound walls you will lose lift and crash, but they did it anyway because they’re the Navy Seals(tm)