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Posted by WillD on Wed May 4 21:47:55 2011, in response to Re: Stealth Helicopter destroyed in OBL attack..., posted by Dan Lawrence on Wed May 4 21:34:10 2011. Yes I am well aware. But I hadn't seen it posted here as yet. And it most certainly was not reported 'in great detail' in any newspaper, because virtually every official story on the matter runs into a stone wall from the DoD on the matter. I figured it'd do me some good to organize my thoughts regarding some of the internet speculation while summarizing some of the theories developed regarding the mysterious tail left behind in Abbottabad. Do you object to my doing this? Furthermore, do you have anything of substance to add to this discussion or are you just going to claim 'the newspapers did it'?IMHO this is a much bigger deal than the use of F-117s in Panama. There we had a project which may have started out in the public eye, but which quickly became black, and then did a rather poor job of maintaining absolute operational surprise. After all, Testors and others kept the F-19 Stealth Fighter rumor alive through the 1980s, even if they were quite wide of the actual aircraft's designator and aesthetics. But there was virtually no indication that the DoD was pursuing any sort of significant upgrade to their special ops helos until Sunday. We may have had the RAH-66, but it was canceled after what sounded like a series of almost impossible technical hurdles were reached. It would appear we've either found solutions to those hurdles, or developed some workaround such that we can fly helicopters into one of the best air defense networks you can buy from the French, Chinese, and US without detection. |
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