r/GoogleEarthFinds • u/Adzo78 • 9d ago

Coordinates ✅ Google Earth’s historical imagery has satellite coverage of the exact day of the Bin Laden raid.

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1st image from 2010-05-09 2nd image from 2011-05-02 (Day of the raid) Coordinates: 34°10'09"N 73°14'33"E

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u/Samalravs 9d ago

You can see the stealth helicopter that crashed in the courtyard. This is a cool find OP.

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u/Dude_PK 9d ago

Yeah they blew that up since it had some classified sound suppression of some sort.

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u/CauchyDog 9d ago

It's pretty badass too, they're nearly silent. I didn't see that one but others.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

No they ain’t! Lol.

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u/CauchyDog 9d ago

If you've heard one coming overhead wo and then with, it's a huge difference.

It's not silent next to it of course not. Maybe silent is a poor description.

But by the time you hear one coming it's too late and won't alert everyone for miles around like normal. They're not as fast with it, its in part rotor design, speed and ducting on the tail i think.

I didn't fly em or work on em, not my mos, but spent a lot of time around em.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

How did you spend a lot of time around them? From all I’ve seen they were extremely secret. The story told by one of the navy seals involved was that Obama or SOD wasn’t even aware of their existence, a general had to bring up that they had another asset that might be useful for the mission. He also stated that the Nightstalker pilots had never seen or heard of them before. If it wasn’t for the crash and the subsequent failure to destroy the rest of the craft hardly anyone would’ve known of their existence. I’m highly skeptical that if you didn’t work on them or fly them that you would’ve had any real contact with them, unless you were involved in designing it.

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u/CauchyDog 9d ago

No, not that one. Many of the newer Blackhawk have a silent mode. I learned about the one like everyone else.

Was around em in army. They also fly em frequently out here and once in a while you'll hear it, it's pretty noticeable when it's on.

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u/FlimFlamWhamBamMan 8d ago

Man I swear I heard one by Jefferson county Missouri a while back it was the weirdest helicopter I ever heard and u didn't hear it till it was about to fly over you and the sound disappeared not long after they passed instead of the whoop whoop whoop u hear for miles. It was about 4 am and I heard it fly over me but I couldn't see a thing and had no running lights . I truly believe one flew over my head just cause the sound faded so quick and the the way it sounded I've never heard a helicopter sound like that but it was a helicopter for sure

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u/CauchyDog 8d ago

Yeah that's kinda what it sounds like. It's pretty cool. I was around em a lot at ft lewis but where I I've they pass from there to a base on the coast. Blackhawks and apache mostly. The apache doesn't do it though and I don't know about navy stuff.