Aviation Week then goes techie and explains what we can see from that picture: "Photos disseminated via the European PressPhoto agency and attributed to an anonymous stringer show that the helicopter’s tail features stealth-configured shapes on the boom and the tail rotor hub fairings, swept stabilizers and a 'dishpan' cover over a five-or-six-blade tail rotor. It has a silver-loaded infrared suppression finish similar to that seen on V-22s."

Low radar visibility was essential, for the Pakistani air force would have either scrambled its jets if an unknown threat to its airspace (and near the country's best military academy!) was detected, or fired its surface to air missiles. It's possibly more proof of the fact that Pakistan really knew nothing about the mission - or at least its first wave of attack - until it ended.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110504/us_time/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110504couldthebinladenraidhaverevealedasecretnewhelicopterxidrssfullnationyahoo

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Its worth having a different thread for it IMO, the other one has a few conversations on at the same time. Anyways, the blog is interesting but the pictures are pretty obvious! I would LOVE to see the rest of that aircraft, its gotta be pretty badass

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The overloaded argument to explain the crash doesn't seem that credible. It had flown quite a ways before getting there so it burned a lot of fuel. It also must have had to fly higher to get to the destination so altitude problems also doesn't seem that convincing. Maybe it was shot down.

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Clicking through the various links one British paper stated that the helicopter came under assault from rocket propelled grenades which caused the crash.

OK - I found the links -

Here's the story with the most photos I've seen -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382859/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Photo-Obama-watching-Al-Qaeda-leader-die-live-TV.html

And here is the direct link to the claim about RPG downing of aircraft -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/03/article-1382859-0BE3114900000578-216_964x741.jpg

The specific statement was -

"Near miss: Wreckage from the crashed U.S. helicopter hangs over a wall in the Abbottabad compound. It stalled after coming under fire from rocket-propelled grenades. Right, the remains of the helicopter are driven away on a tractor"