Re: Bin Laden is dead - and the U.S. has the body
It turns out that the hit on Bin Laden revealed two secret aircraft: the RQ-170 Sentinel and an unidentified stealth helicopter that crashed and wasn't totally destroyed before the Seal team left. (The team did totally destroy the equipment on the interior, however.)
http://jalopnik.com/5797643/the-secr...kill-bin-laden
The RQ-170 is using something called "Hyper-spectral" detection, which is similar to other optical detection devices, like infrared, but beyond the infrared spectrum, as described in the following link:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...n-the-sky.html
The stealth helicopter has a unique tail rotor and fin stabilizer which puts it beyond the RAH-66 class of stealth helicopters. That design is obviously made to allow much greater speeds than the 66 burst speed of 172 knts. I would guess that it can sustain speeds greater than 200 knts and a range of over 600km.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ters-raid.html
It turns out that the hit on Bin Laden revealed two secret aircraft: the RQ-170 Sentinel and an unidentified stealth helicopter that crashed and wasn't totally destroyed before the Seal team left. (The team did totally destroy the equipment on the interior, however.)
http://jalopnik.com/5797643/the-secr...kill-bin-laden
The RQ-170 is using something called "Hyper-spectral" detection, which is similar to other optical detection devices, like infrared, but beyond the infrared spectrum, as described in the following link:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...n-the-sky.html
The stealth helicopter has a unique tail rotor and fin stabilizer which puts it beyond the RAH-66 class of stealth helicopters. That design is obviously made to allow much greater speeds than the 66 burst speed of 172 knts. I would guess that it can sustain speeds greater than 200 knts and a range of over 600km.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ters-raid.html
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