Decreases of 7 and 11 knots in maximum cruise speed, 805 and 520 feet in hover ceiling, 248 and 740 feet in OEI service ceiling, and 0.14 and 0.19 hour in endurance were calculated for the LRCS2 aid LRCS3 configurations respectively.Clearly, the more elaborate the stealthy modifications to the baseline H-60 design, the more penalty was paid in drag, overall performance, and especially general instability. They don't call them the Night Stalkers for nothing!There have also been claims that the stealth Black Hawk was in its second generation when the Bin Laden raid took place, with the older generation being used for the raid out of fear that losing one would compromise far too many technological secrets. In the end, one crew went after a couple of pilots volunteered. For that reason, JSOC had chosen to use the latest version of the stealth Black Hawks that flew the Bin Laden raid. Minor changes in the pitching moment of the LRCS1 and LRCS3 configurations, compared to the UH-60A were calculated, however, the LRCS2 trend demonstrated an increase in slope resulting in an 83% increase in basic fuselage instability.4. The narrow cockpit causes the pilot and copilot seats to be spaced closer to each other; space for four-across seating in the main cabin is decreased.

This gave Team 6’s most experienced men pause.

"The tail boom remains suggest the landing gear was retractable - again, usually it could be detected by radar, so retracting it would help avoid radar detection. It was there, U.S. intelligence analysts believed, that a group calling itself the Islamic State—one of the two Islamist factions waging war in Syria—was holding several Western hostages, including at least two Americans: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. That mission famously left one of the two such aircraft then in existence burned to a crisp in bin Laden’s backyard.

Over the years that followed, I continued to report on Since then, there has been no new credible information or sightings of the Stealth Hawks or even of their possible successors. In Team 6, there were different opinions about whom to blame for the insistence on using the helicopters.

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We also don't know whether additional stealthy add-ons, especially for the tail, were developed later for this project or were otherwise not fitted in this particular instance.Without knowing the particular variant of EH-60, it is especially hard to try to determine the date of this photograph. Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts In wreckage of chopper left behind, experts see new stealth Blackhawk. “He wanted to use these newfangled helicopters,” said an operator. Finally, we have to address the big question outstanding: could these modifications be the same as those used on the Bin Laden raid helicopters? The rotor covering, along with a special rotor design, suppressed the choppers noise while inbound, Bill Sweetman, editor and chief of Defense Technology International, said. Clearly it didn't have anywhere near the same treatment to its tail. The narrow upper fuselage causes the pilot and copilot seats to be spaced closer to each other, and shoulder room in the main cabin is decreased. Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal, in particular, proved to be a unique problem, but by 2009, it was one that defense officials said they could deal with directly in an emergency.

Two variants of each configuration were studied. Any degradation in performance would not have been permanent, either, allowing the helicopters to fly in a normal configuration the rest of the time. Stealth Black Hawk helicopter used by US Special Forces during Bin Laden raid According to a Tweet published on the Twitter account jmscaronte on August 4, 2020, the first picture released on the Internet showing a modified version of Black Hawk helicopter, the possible predecessor to the stealth Black Hawk used during the Bin Laden raid.

There had been “eyes on the target” for at least a week prior to D-day, reporting what they saw in short, encrypted messages. The overall length is slightly increased due to this configuration.The general arrangement of Configuration 2, shown in Figure 4, was developed from mold line drawing No. "The bottom line is about increasing the element of surprise.