Book Reveals New Details About Stealth Black Hawks Used In Bin Laden Raid

I don’t know much about these helicopters, other than the fact that they look cool.

According to the book, the two stealth Black Hawks had questionable performance, with the weight penalties resulting from their stealth modifications making them hard to control under certain conditions, especially in a hover. Naylor states multiple times that the aircraft were not of the SEALs choosing and that they were pushed on the elite special operators.

What!! Nobody comments on good fiction these days?

Helicopters are a fundamentally terrible vehicle to attempt to make stealthy, the blackhawk particularly so,
You have 2 rotating propellers, in the blackhawk's case perpendicular to each other. Game over. You're never going to stealth something like that without shrouding the entire rotating assemblies. Anyone claiming otherwise is suffering from a fundamental lack of understanding of how RADAR functions.

You'd actually have a much better chance at stealthing a chinook by shrouding the two sets of props which are at least operating in the same plane. It wouldn't be stealthy from every angle, but I bet from certain angles you could actually get some serious RCS reduction that could be mission-planned to take advantage of.

These were in the Rainbow 6 book many years ago.