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Title: Pakistan to let Chinese plunder secret U.S. stealth helicopter downed in Bin Laden raid
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... akistan.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Published: May 10, 2011
Author: Oliver Tree
Post Date: 2011-05-10 21:22:27 by socalv8
Keywords: obama, pakistan, china
Views: 3796
Comments: 14
The Chinese military could soon get its hands on the wreckage of a secret U.S. 'stealth' helicopter that crash landed in the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound, Pakistani officials have said. The previously unseen helicopter crashed in the daring dawn raid in Abbottabad earlier this month, with Navy SEALs managing to destroy all but a tail section of the secret aircraft. The U.S. has since demanded the Pakistanis return the destroyed helicopter. But according to ABC news, Pakistani officials have said the Chinese were also 'very interested' in seeing the tail section, with one unnamed official adding: 'We might let [the Chinese] take a look.' Pictures of the heavily damaged tail section circulated on the internet shortly after the May 2 raid, with the remaining tail bearing a striking resemblance to the smooth angular design of other stealth aircraft such as the B2 bomber. Speaking to the news network, an unnamed U.S. official added that he would be 'shocked' if the Chinese had not already had a look at the classified helicopter. In the days following the crash, children from the surrounding neighbourhood were seen playing with fragments of a mysterious cloth like material said to come from the stealth helicopter wreckage. Images of the severed tail section left aviation experts scratching their heads, with several concluding it must be a new, as yet unknown helicopter design. Bill Sweetman, editor of Aviation Week said the pictures show a 'stealth-configuration' on the wrecked rotor housing.
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#1. To: All (#0)
America produces shitty helicopters. During the Kosovo war, the USA sent ground attack choppers to Albania and they kept crashing down as they were being prepared for combat, at least that is what was claimed - the Serbs could have shot them down and the Pentagon tried to cover it up, but I think they were indeed crashing because the USA has a history of high tech and expensive weapons systems not working as advertisedl (see Patriot missiles).
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#10. To: socalv8 (#8)
Somalians disagree.
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"Unknown: Distinctive features, such as the smooth and angular outer shell, covered rotor blades and pointed rear end have bamboozled aviation experts"
#6. To: socalv8 (#1)
#8. To: Godwinson (#6)
America produces shitty helicopters.
Why did Obama leave a stealth, high teck helo for kids and engineers to play in and pose with?
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