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Old 11-05-2011, 07:34 PM   #23
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Default Re: Stealth Helicopter used in Osama Raid

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Originally Posted by Gomez
Remember the Pakistani local who famously tweeted about the damn noisy chopper outside his house in Abbottabad on the night of the Bin Laden raid?

They weren't that quiet.
Highly likely there were 'normal' helos as part of the 'package' as well, most likely MH-47's which would have been the noisy bastards. You wouldn't conduct an operation like this without support and redundancy.
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