Three LRCS fuselage configuration were developed by the Applied Technology Laboratory, both based on tail surfaces and main rotor pylon fairing of the baseline UH-60A. Indeed, as once again The Aviationist first discovered and reported on May 17, 2011, a document titled: “STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS AND AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS FOR LOW RADAR CROSS SECTION (LRCS) FUSELAGE CONFIGURATIONS”, issued by Sikorsky Aircraft Division for the US Army Research and Technology Laboratories in 1978 provides some details about a project for a Low Observability UH-60.Įven though the fuselage concepts for low radar cross section aircraft configurations were designed at the end of the ’70s, the first attempts to give the UH-60 some stealthy capabilities are still useful to imagine a few modifications to the “classic” Black Hawk profile that might have made their way into the final Stealth Black Hawk. While fictional, it’s worth noticing that the various reviews of the original rendering appear to have something in common with an in-depth study by the Sikorsky Aircraft Division, dated 1978. Here’s the rest of the story, as explained in detail in a previous story posted here: If you Google “Stealth Black Hawk” and search by images, you’ll find many occurrences of the first and subsequent reviews of the rendering, as well as many other artist impressions influenced by them.Īnyway, we continued to work on that first rendering and, in the following days, we published an updated and more refined rendering: The rendering made in 2011 few hours after the raid that exposed the existence of the Stealth Black Hawk. Model kits and diecast helicopters were also based on that concept image. This was the very first rendering, published by The Aviationist hours after the raid.Īlthough it was based on a few surviving chunk of metal and fantasy (hence fairly inaccurate and resembling an S-76 more than an MH-60), the initial sketch went viral: I was interviewed by media all around the world and the sketch itself was used by news agencies, newspapers, TV broadcasters, documentaries, as if it was the real portrayal of the still secret Stealth Black Hawk. With the help of Ugo Crisponi, an artist at, I imagined what the full stealthy chopper would have looked like after applying the tail section and rotor revealed by the photographs, along with imaginary engine shields, rotor covers, an extra main rotor blade (to slow down the rotor speed making blades quieter) and some imagination. What happened next, at least for us it’s very well known: this Author began studying the possible shape of the MH-X or “Stealth Black Hawk” or “Silent Hawk”, immediately after the first pictures of the helicopter’s tail section appeared online. Navy Special teams a platform to penetrate, unseen, the Soviet Air Defenses and hit naval installations and harbours. ran a series of black programs aimed to give the U.S. Navy SEALs tried to destroy the crashed helo to hide its technology, the tail section survived the attempt to blow it up because it had fallen outside of the compound giving the world the opportunity to have a glance at an advanced technology developed since the Cold War era, when the U.S. As it did, the tail and rotor hit on one of the compound’s 12-foot walls. Indeed, as often explained since then, the tail rotor had an unusual cover that could be anything from an armour plate to a noise reduction cover sheltering the motion-control technology used to input low-frequency variations of rotor blade pitch-angle, as tested by NASA the blades were flatter, and not wing-shaped, whereas the paint job was extremely similar to the kind of anti-radar paint and Radar-Absorbing Material coating used by the most modern stealth fighters.Īccording to the few official statements released in the aftermath of the raid, the helicopter did not suffer any failure but skittered around uncontrollably in the heat-thinned air forcing the pilot to crash-land. Army 160th SOAR (A)“Night Stalkers”, that would be later unofficially nicknamed the “Stealth Black Hawk”. Navy SEALs in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, and in particular the one that had crashed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was a previously unknown radar evading chopper, flown by the U.S. On May 2, 2011, few hours after the first images of its remains started to spread around the world, we were probably the world’s first aviation site to write that those parts didn’t belong to any known type of chopper: the helicopters used by the U.S. While its shape is still a mystery, here’s an interesting rendering. Since 2011 we have collected the description of someone who was in Afghanistan and saw the secret MH-X Stealth Black Hawk helicopter recover after the raid.
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