Doing some research on the infamous choppers that were used during operation Neptune Spear, and consolidating my finds here. Not trying seriuous intel analysis here, just compiling other people takes on the beast.
The only part we actually know anything about is of course the tail...
Everything else his wild speculation about what was appended to this tail looked like. For all we know there wasn't even a Black Hawk variant at the other hand but something else entirely.
One major source of such speculation is David Cenciotti on The Avionist blog...
He writes quite a bit over the helicopters (along with over everything else about this operation), illustrating each iteration of its ideas with nice drawings by Ugo Crisponi. Among his hypothesis is the existence of a "Stealth Chinook" and possibly of a "Stealth Little Bird". Along the same line, he writes about a "stealth Yansuff" (the Israeli version of the Black Hawk) used to insert Mossad agents in Iran.
The second major source of (purely hypothetical again) visual for those choppers is the Dark Zero Thirty movie (very neat movie by the way, just keep in mind that Jessica Chastain's character his more than certainly a composite of a shitload of analyst that relayed eachother in a - one of several - analyst teams over the course of ten years).
Beside actual screen caps...
A couple of good sources are PS Composites (a company involved in the making of the movie prop)...
FXguide (a blog dedicated to special effects)...
Avenue Edmonton (a "lifestyle magazine", whatever that is, from Alberta) and its article about Todd Cherniawsky, "helicopter art director" for Zero Dark Thirty...
Not to mention The Avionist (see above) wondering if this is an actual leaked picture of super secret stealth helicopter or a movie prop...
Honk Kong based Dragon Models released (just under three weeks after the world first heard of it) a 1/144 model of the "MH-X"
A certain Razor diligently posted more pics of the models on Scale Rotors.
Finally I also found a 3D model by "peter_pan03" (from Beiging, lots of Chinese interest on this) on Creative Crash.
That's about it... Just a couple of not quite related pictures of a Blue Edge "quiet" rotor blade tested by Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) on a EC155 back in 2010 that might just give another hint on what the "MH-X" rotor could look like.
Beside actual screen caps...
A couple of good sources are PS Composites (a company involved in the making of the movie prop)...
Avenue Edmonton (a "lifestyle magazine", whatever that is, from Alberta) and its article about Todd Cherniawsky, "helicopter art director" for Zero Dark Thirty...
Not to mention The Avionist (see above) wondering if this is an actual leaked picture of super secret stealth helicopter or a movie prop...
Honk Kong based Dragon Models released (just under three weeks after the world first heard of it) a 1/144 model of the "MH-X"
A certain Razor diligently posted more pics of the models on Scale Rotors.
Finally I also found a 3D model by "peter_pan03" (from Beiging, lots of Chinese interest on this) on Creative Crash.
That's about it... Just a couple of not quite related pictures of a Blue Edge "quiet" rotor blade tested by Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) on a EC155 back in 2010 that might just give another hint on what the "MH-X" rotor could look like.
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