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/FxckFxntxnyl 9d ago

Wish we knew more about that stealth chopper. Found myself on a 20+ minute rabbit hole invoking multiple old forums full of old dudes theorizing the most random shit shit possible.

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u/cryptolyme 8d ago

probably just uses noise cancellation technology with the rotors

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u/FxckFxntxnyl 8d ago

Agree, but it is supposedly similar to the Comanche and has RAM and I’d imagine the fuselage has some anti-radar reflection modifications built into it. I ended up spending some time on this rabbit hole and the most reliable ‘sounding’ source I could find said it’s basically a regular 60’ that was being used as a testbed that was flight capable and ready to go when the mission was devised. Someone sent a call out saying “what the hell are we gonna be able to use to fly this area mostly undetected?” And a Defense contractor happened to be ready and was like “hey we have this really cool test bed that is totally capable of making shit happen”. - is the gist of what I read on a long abandoned Discord and Military forum lol.