The usa has a secret stealth helicopter in the works

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#1 emb4
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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/secret-stealth-helicopters-ferried-troops-obl-kill-operation

does anyone else think that this is epic? i guess america still has it when it comes to military power

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#2 Ace6301
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Not very secret now. Also they appear to have a tendency to drop out of the sky judging by the whole 50% of the known ones have dropped out of the sky.
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#3 emb4
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[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Not very secret now. Also they appear to have a tendency to drop out of the sky judging by the whole 50% of the known ones have dropped out of the sky.

yeah, its also kindof loud considering people heard it flying around in pakistan, but i guess it went undetected anyway
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#4 Fuhgeddabouditt
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/seals-used-secret-stealth-helicopter-25132130.

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#5 BuryMe
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It's not much of a secret if we're talking about it.

But I'm sure they have many secret helicopters in the works.

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#6 Blue-Sky
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[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Not very secret now. Also they appear to have a tendency to drop out of the sky judging by the whole 50% of the known ones have dropped out of the sky.emb4
yeah, its also kindof loud considering people heard it flying around in pakistan, but i guess it went undetected anyway

The idea of stealth is invisibility to radar and electronic detection, not human senses.

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#7 Dark__Link
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The Comanche lives? :o Oh, it's just a dumb Blackhawk variant...
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#8 Mystic-G
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Our government also has the technology to cause earthquakes. True story.

Nikola Telsa, look him up.

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#9 scorch-62
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Not much of a secret now. . .
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#10 Mystic-G
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As long as the government admits nothing and denies everything then I'll assume that it doesn't exist.

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#11 DroidPhysX
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Thank you news media

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There was the commanche, but that was cancelled.

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#13 stanleycup98
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It's not a new secret helicopter. It's just a Black Hawk with stealth modifications.
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[QUOTE="emb4"][QUOTE="Ace6301"]Not very secret now. Also they appear to have a tendency to drop out of the sky judging by the whole 50% of the known ones have dropped out of the sky.

yeah, its also kindof loud considering people heard it flying around in pakistan, but i guess it went undetected anyway

Not from what I heard. People could only hear it when the helicopters were above their houses.
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#15 emb4
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As long as the government admits nothing and denies everything then I'll assume that it doesn't exist.

Mystic-G
they denied its existance?
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#16 emb4
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 found a pretty epic image, i wanna see the whole thing
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#17 Mystic-G
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[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

As long as the government admits nothing and denies everything then I'll assume that it doesn't exist.

emb4
they denied its existance?

They refuse to speak on it. That would be filed under 'admit nothing'.
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#18 stanleycup98
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Here's some guy's rendering of it:
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#19 fidosim
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Now we just need stealth modifications for the stealth modifications.
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#20 emb4
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[QUOTE="stanleycup98"]Here's some guy's rendering of it:

thats actually really good, i think he got it spot on i wonder if the heli will ever actually be revealed in the coming years
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#21 Mystic-G
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I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

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#22 Ace6301
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I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

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Because it's a modified UH-60
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#23 Mystic-G
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[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

Ace6301
Because it's a modified UH-60

Is that confirmed or speculated?
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#24 Dark__Link
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I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

Mystic-G
The Blackhawk is the base platform, and something that everyone immediately recognizes when mentioned. Why bother confusing people just to be "technically" correct?
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#25 Ace6301
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[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

Mystic-G
Because it's a modified UH-60

Is that confirmed or speculated?

Well either way the Seahawk is a modified Blackhawk. So either way the new stealth helicopter is a modified Black Hawk.
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#26 Mystic-G
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[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

Dark__Link
The Blackhawk is the base platform, and something that everyone immediately recognizes when mentioned. Why bother confusing people just to be "technically" correct?

The media goes into great detail anyway on the subject, just curious why they would leave it out.
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#27 stanleycup98
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I just wanna say. The Navy doesn't use Black Hawks technically, they use Sea Hawks which are a modified version of the Black Hawk already. So I dunno why people keep saying this is a modified Black Hawk.

Mystic-G
See what I bolded, you answered your own question.

And the other big reason is because people recognize the Black Hawk. A lot of people call Sea Hawks Black Hawks anyway.

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#28 Mystic-G
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Just don't see why they wouldn't wanna educate the people even further as they have been about what the Navy Seals are. :roll:

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#29 emb4
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[QUOTE="Mystic-G"] The media goes into great detail anyway on the subject, just curious why they would leave it out.

i first found out about this when watching the news, they said it might have been based on a modified black hawk actually
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#30 stanleycup98
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Just don't see why they wouldn't wanna educate the people even further as they have been about what the Navy Seals are. :roll:

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Actually, I just read on a few sites that the Army flew the SEALs in. Either way, it doesn't really matter. Most people who don't have interest in helicopters couldn't care less whether it should be called a Sea Hawk or Black Hawk.
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Yep, both choppers used to raid Osama's house were stealth hawks. On the CBS new just now they said humans cant really hear them past 100ft with your average town/city noise around

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#32 Ace6301
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Yep, both choppers used to raid Osama's house were stealth hawks. On the CBS new just now they said humans cant really hear them past 100ft with your average town/city noise around

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Good thing they were attacking a smallish town at 1 in the morning then. Radar stealth is obviously the biggest plus since during the day you'll see it as Blackhawks are quite large and at night you'll hear it since there isn't much noise. Also inb4 conspiracy theorists going on about black helicopters.
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can't see where this is going when we are having trouble with a poorly equipped militia in the Middle East.. The last time we fought imposing opponent was in Korea..
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#34 lamprey263
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I was wondering how they got so far into Pakistan without detection, I just figured they flew really really low or something
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#35 entropyecho
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Yes! Finally!

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can't see where this is going when we are having trouble with a poorly equipped militia in the Middle East.. The last time we fought imposing opponent was in Korea.. sSubZerOo
Maybe you just answered your own ponderings?
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#37 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="stanleycup98"]Here's some guy's rendering of it:  emb4
thats actually really good, i think he got it spot on i wonder if the heli will ever actually be revealed in the coming years

I dont think so. If the US were the only ones with Blackhawks, sure, they'd show us...but iirc the Blackhawk is in service with many countries all over, we dont want to let on that a stealth copter can be built on a platform readily available to everyone.

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#38 JustPlainLucas
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Pretty neat looking chopper. Too bad it crashed.
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#39 Mystic-G
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I swear I seen a similar helicopter in a video game before. Anyone know any games that featured a similar designed/shaped chopper?

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#40 mrbojangles25
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I swear I seen a similar helicopter in a video game before. Anyone know any games that featured a similar designed/shaped chopper?

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Deus Ex?

:P

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#41 Espada12
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I think the more interesting point is that supposedly all telecommunications within the area were knocked out when the US arrived and restored when they left :P.

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I'm still waiting for Orcas from the original Command and Conquer.
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I'm still waiting for Orcas from the original Command and Conquer. cybrcatter

amen to that!

problably the most beautiful fictional VTOL ever imagined :oops:

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[QUOTE="cybrcatter"]I'm still waiting for Orcas from the original Command and Conquer. mrbojangles25

amen to that!

problably the most beautiful fictional VTOL ever imagined :oops:

I just realized that that game came out more than 15 years ago.

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#45 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="cybrcatter"]I'm still waiting for Orcas from the original Command and Conquer. cybrcatter

amen to that!

problably the most beautiful fictional VTOL ever imagined :oops:

I just realized that that game came out more than 15 years ago.

...and its still fun!

*digs through cardboard box of old disks*

Damn, I think The First Decade is at my folk's place :(

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whats left is already on it's way to china
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#47 Mystic-G
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whats left is already on it's way to chinacomp_atkins
Can China's military come up with any original ideas for their own? Seems like they're always copying.
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#48 cybrcatter
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[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]whats left is already on it's way to chinaMystic-G
Can China's military come up with any original ideas for their own? Seems like they're always copying.

Why spend decades researching when you can easily reverse engineer tech that's available today?

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#49 Mystic-G
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[QUOTE="Mystic-G"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]whats left is already on it's way to chinacybrcatter

Can China's military come up with any original ideas for their own? Seems like they're always copying.

Why spend decades researching when you can easily reverse engineer tech that's available today?

Because treasures like the helicopter are rare finds and you would be holding your military back waiting to copy anything good you may come across. On a side note, I can only imagine how much China paid for it.
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#50 lordreaven
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Not gonna lie, that artists rendition was very smexy. Now if only you Americans could make sexy looking tanks (Abrams is fugly with acaptiol F).