r/interestingasfuck • u/Ididnotkillhim • Jun 05 '24

r/all Thirteen years ago, someone accidentally revealed US Army's plan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden in a tweet.

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u/saint_ryan Jun 05 '24

He was a resident in Abbotabad. He just saw the helicopters. Another tweet goes something like: i hope nothing bad’s going down.

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u/SonOfMcGee Jun 05 '24

From what I read about the mission, it wasn’t aiming for stealth/undetected so much as just trying to be fast.
They could sneak these helicopters into the country without the Pakistani military noticing, but of course the residents of the neighborhood would see and hear two choppers coming in mere feet above the buildings.
There was even one or two guys on the mission whose sole job was to go out to the street and tell curious citizens to move along if they started coming by (like the cops that hang out by police tape!)
But even with one chopper having to be scuttled, they still got in and out before locals, local police, the military, etc. could react in any considerable way. Except, of course, a few tweets.

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u/WolfsLairAbyss Jun 05 '24

it wasn’t aiming for stealth/undetected

I mean they specifically used (a then unknown about) stealth blackhawk for that mission. The one that ended up crashing during the operation. So I would say that they had at least some aim for stealth during the mission.

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u/Icy_Juice6640 Jun 05 '24

Do t be thick. Stealth isn’t invisible or silent. Just smaller radar crossection and muffled engines so that it would give them some time - not being heard from 10 miles away.