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Well, this is interesting. Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims there are a lot more of those
stealthy Black Hawk helicopters – the kind famoulsy used in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year — out there
than has previously been reported. The best part of his claim; the U.S. isn’t the only nation to operate them.
Israel is possibly using stealthy Black Hawks to ferry armed, 12-man teams of Iranian dissidents living in northern Iraq into
Iran in order to collect intelligence on Tehran’s nuclear programs, writes Maloof.
<a href="http://s1267.beta.photobucket.com/user/365Wildfire/library/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/cleanstealthhawk-490x169.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
A quick Google search doesn’t turn up any of the media reports about Israel using stealthy Black Hawks to penetrate Iran
that Maloof claims are out there.
Still, this is a very interesting angle, since the most revealing reporting on the stealth chopper that crashed during last year’s
raid to kill bin Laden stated that the stealthy-bird was one of only a handful ever made for the U.S. Army’s 160th Special
Operations Aviation Regiment.
There’s the possibility that Israel has figured out how to modify its Black Hawks on its own — remember, the tech supposedly
used to modify the 160th SOAR’s Black Hawks was apparently introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, so it’s not impossible to
think that the IDF has figured out how to copy it.
stealthy Black Hawk helicopters – the kind famoulsy used in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year — out there
than has previously been reported. The best part of his claim; the U.S. isn’t the only nation to operate them.
Israel is possibly using stealthy Black Hawks to ferry armed, 12-man teams of Iranian dissidents living in northern Iraq into
Iran in order to collect intelligence on Tehran’s nuclear programs, writes Maloof.
<a href="http://s1267.beta.photobucket.com/user/365Wildfire/library/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/cleanstealthhawk-490x169.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
A quick Google search doesn’t turn up any of the media reports about Israel using stealthy Black Hawks to penetrate Iran
that Maloof claims are out there.
Still, this is a very interesting angle, since the most revealing reporting on the stealth chopper that crashed during last year’s
raid to kill bin Laden stated that the stealthy-bird was one of only a handful ever made for the U.S. Army’s 160th Special
Operations Aviation Regiment.
There’s the possibility that Israel has figured out how to modify its Black Hawks on its own — remember, the tech supposedly
used to modify the 160th SOAR’s Black Hawks was apparently introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, so it’s not impossible to
think that the IDF has figured out how to copy it.
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