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..or just very clever photoshopping? Emailed to me as being one of ours in Afghanistan - I know nothing about choppers so I have no idea what it is.

I've seen that photo attributed to Americans (complete with a cheesy "God bless America" text blurb), the Australians (why on earth would we paint a Russian chopper with an American eagle??), and now the British.

The location also seems to flip between Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cynical? Me? You bet!

They have eagles in Russia too

Sorry, but just coz it's hawklike doesn't make it American. It only has one head!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/eaglecopter.asp

"Common as it may be to assume that any neat-o piece of military hardware must be American especially when it's painted to look like the same type of bird that serves as the U.S. national symbol ; the helicopter shown here is not American, nor has it been used by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The type of helicopter shown in these images is the Mi-24 Hind ;the unusually-decorated version pictured here belonged to the Hungarian Air Force and was evidently painted with the eagle design by one of its crew members. The craft was not used in military operations and carried no armaments; it was strictly a display vehicle exhibited at air shows and the like. As far as we have been able to determine, the helicopter has since been decommissioned and no longer exists."


good old snopes

What Pierre said!

Hidden depths Pierre? Or was that another e-bay purchase you read the small print about when it was deliverd?