K - is this for real?
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K - is this for real?
..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.
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
"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
