Originally Posted by
Gearjerk
As someone else mentioned, think it was Scambo, the incendiary grenades are used for quick disposal of classified material.
They wouldn't have used "Stealth Technologies" (the assumed reason for the looks of the modified tail rotor section) to raid a Third World terrorist compound anyway. (Ask any of the 330 guys who do the AMS - BOM flights. The radar in that region is so limited, a military spec. ops unit could've probably brought a marching band in with them and the Pakistani military wouldn't have known til after the Indi government told them so.)
The picture looks to me like the upper rotor mast of an MH-6 "Littlebird", also used by the 160th SOAR. (FTB, that's the pic I was attempting to post.)
I've only flown Blackhawks in my previous life for eight years in the Army, so don't take my word for it, but it isn't the cowling of a "highly modified H-60 tail rotor", and there is no "IR signature to mask" on the tail rotor gearbox when you have two 701C 1600+hp engines blasting hot air from the exhaust, only feet in front of the tail rotor/tail boom section.
Fly safe,
GJ
That really does not look like a MH-6 upper rotor section:
I too noticed the crane attached. Apparently the tail rotor section separated from the rest of the wreckage over that wall. The rest of the wreckage was destroyed by thermite grenades as previously mentioned.
To me that doesn't look like a stealth or IR hiding technology, but more like sound masking... which would be very appropriate in a situation like this.