Secret Stealth Helped U.S. Accomplish bin Laden Raid
Stealthy helicopters and
U.S. officials have not confirmed the type of helicopter that carried Navy Seals to the compound housing Osama bin Laden, but a stealth version of Sikorsky’s UH-60 Black Hawk might have been involved. (Photo: Sikorsky)
U.S. officials have not confirmed the type of helicopter that carried Navy Seals to the compound housing Osama bin Laden, but a stealth version of Sikorsky’s UH-60 Black Hawk might have been involved. (Photo: Sikorsky)

Stealthy helicopters and the still-secret RQ-170 Sentinel, a stealthy unmanned or optionally piloted, tailless flying wing, may have played pivotal roles in the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 1.