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Grey Havoc said:There is some speculation over at the dark lair of our dire enemies, militaryphotos.net ( ;D ), that the bird that went down was actually a custom built close support bird, possibly around the size of the Kiowa. AFAIR, the 160th did have a small number a of a 'stealthy' version of the OH-58 (can't remember the exact designation at the moment) up to around the mid-90's (budget cuts), although that was apparently an infiltration and retrieval platform rather than armed support (no weaponry was normally fitted, IIRC). However, I believe that the general consensus over at our mortal foes is, for the moment, the same as over here, i.e. the crashed bird was a stealthy variant of, or a inflitration optimised design derived from, the Blackhawk.
I thought ATS were the mortal foes, and MP.net was neutral.
There was a "stealthy" Kiowa, but it was never produced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OH-58X.jpg
The horizontal tail of the mystery aircraft seems to be in a very different position than on a Blackhawk. Of course, we're looking at a jumble of broken parts, so who knows.