picture just doesn t fit. take a closer look. look here and you can see this sort of round disk, sort of looks like a hub cap covering the tail rotor. he said that could hide the gears that turn the rotor. he said he doesn t know of any helicopter in the u.s. military that has something like that. also, the tail row for looks like it has five to six blades. a black hawk has more. he says more and shorter blades would reduce that whoop, whoop, whoop sound that you hear. and the coloring, it looks like it s been painted a gray similar to what the air force uses to evade radar. aviation enthusiasts have been buzzing about this, speculate thing is a new form of stealth black hawk. but to throw a grain of salt out
sthek easily end up in the hands of governments trying to build stealth technology. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence joins me now. obviously an attempt to blow this up was an attempt to not let this technology fall into the wrong hands. this clearly does not seem to be the standard black hawk helicopter. reporter: no, it doesn t, anderson. i spoke with a veteran military pilot who has flown blackhawks on numerous missions, knows those planes inside and out and he says what he saw in that picture just doesn t fit. take a closer look. look here and you can see this sort of round disk, sort of looks like a hub cap covering the tail rotor. he said that could hide the gears that turn the rotor. something that radar would easily pick up. he said he doesn t know of any helicopter in the u.s. military that has something like that. also, the pieces of the tail row for looks like it has five to six blades and the blades may be
look here and you can see this sort of round disk, sort of looks like a hub cap covering the tail rotor. he said that could hide the gears that turn the rotor. he said he doesn t know of any helicopter in the u.s. military that has something like that. also, the tail row for looks like it has five to six blades. a black hawk has more. he says more and shorter blades would reduce that whoop, whoop, whoop sound that you hear. and the coloring, it looks like it s been painted a gray similar to what the air force uses to evade radar. aviation enthusiasts have been buzzing about this, speculate thing is a new form of stealth black hawk. but to throw a grain of salt out there, this is the wreckage of a piece of a plane. anderson?
here is nbc s chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. reporter: half past midnight, three u.s. helicopters flying low under pakistani radar zeroed in on the compound. one helicopter was forced to land inside a courtyard clipping a wall with its tail row tore. back at the white house, the president and his national security team with riveted to a live video feed of the operation. as dozens of u.s. commandos set up a perimeter, two teams of assault forces, delta force and navy seals stormed the xwound. one commando came face to face with osama bin laden who was unarmed. bin laden s wife charged straight at the american who shot her in the leg. he then fired two rounds at bin laden, one in the face, one in the chest. the al qaeda leader fell dead. the white house today struggled to explain why bin laden was shot when he was unarmed. there were many other people armed in the region in the compound. there was a firefight.