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It's a stealth optimized MH-60. Nothing to see here, really.

• eggspurt 15y ago
  Yes. Given the number of remains, it appears to be trivial. If it wasn't they'd clean them up not just blow them up. They'd blow it up in a hostile country such as Serbia where the remains of F-117 were transported to China afterward and the present Chinese stealth technology is a result of reverse engineering of those remains. F-117 was 20 years old in 1999 - and if this helicopter was so new and so secret that nobody has seen it before, they'd go pick it up as Pakistan is a "friendly" state. It's just a standard transport helicopter (like MH-60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk) modified for special forces to have less of a radar cross-section. For example, they put rotor screws under a plate. It's not so important for a helicopter to be stealth - if the pilot has NVG, it can fly during the day right over the trees, and few radars can pick it up, unless it accidentally flies over (in the radius of about 8km) of a mobile surface-to-air missile launcher. And they know where these are: JSTARS tells them where the sources of radiation are, and they set their path around those. They also avoided all towns where someone would detect them based on noise and make a phone call, or, god forbid, tweet.
  • kinkora 15y ago
    "They also avoided all towns where someone would detect them based on noise and make a phone call, or, god forbid, tweet." you mean like this? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505610 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505610 edit: changed link. did not realise i was linking to a fake hacker news site.
    • damncabbage 15y ago
      It's a little bit tough to avoid the town that contains your target.
  • est 15y ago
    And consider P.R. China have S-70Cs already