DefenceGeek 🇬🇧(@DefenceGeek):I can't believe it needs to be said, but the helicopter seen picking up "Dude-44-Bravo" in the footage released by @60Minutes is clearly an MH-6/AH-6 variant. The so-called smudge visible in the blurred footage is the result of the engine exhaust, and the US admitted to having to fly him off the mountain to the waiting HC-130J and destroy the helicopters as there wasn't time to load them back onto the flight out, hence the 6-bladed MH-6/AH-6 variants seen in photos from the scene in Iran. It is NOT a special H-60 "Stealth-hawk" or whatever you want to call it. And it is certainly NOT a CH-53... 🤦‍♂️ @MATA

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DefenceGeek 🇬🇧@DefenceGeek

2026.09.14 08:41

I can't believe it needs to be said, but the helicopter seen picking up "Dude-44-Bravo" in the footage released by @60Minutes is clearly an MH-6/AH-6 variant. The so-called smudge visible in the blurred footage is the result of the engine exhaust, and the US admitted to having to fly him off the mountain to the waiting HC-130J and destroy the helicopters as there wasn't time to load them back onto the flight out, hence the 6-bladed MH-6/AH-6 variants seen in photos from the scene in Iran. It is NOT a special H-60 "Stealth-hawk" or whatever you want to call it. And it is certainly NOT a CH-53... 🤦‍♂️ @MATA_osint