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
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 rotor looks like it has five or six blades, and the blades may be shorter. a blackhawk normally has four blades and he says that shorter blades would reduce the whoop, whoop, whoop sound that you hear with a blackhawk helicopter, and also the coloring looks like it is painted a gray similar to what the air force uses to evade radar. now the aviation enthusiasts have been buzzing about this since these pictures hit the internet, speculating that this is a new form of stealth
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?
pieces of it. and flashback my very first briefing at the pentagon, i assured people i would not try to tell them how you disassemble the tail rotor of a helicopter and i won t do that this morning. my gut tells me they destroyed the important parts and pieces. it looks so cutting edge. it does, doesn t it? that s around now. right. grossman took over for holbrooke and he went in the country on monday. victoria, bring us behind the scenes, behind closed doors. knowing that pakistan is somewhat embarrassed and they should be that he was so close, we have a bit of leverage but they have all the people in the compound and they have the chopper. what goes on behind the scenes to get it out? as you guys know because you ve talked about it for the last 72 hours, it s a very difficult relationship with pakistan. it has been. it will be. but it s a relationship we have to maintain. the good news is that in the last 72 hours, the balance of power in that relationship has shifted sig