Operation Neptune Spear
operation of US Navy task force SEAL Team Six
Facts
18 properties- Instance of
- covert operation
- Duration
- 38.0[21]
- Location
- Abbottabad[2]
- Part of
- War on Terrorism[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 34.169°, 73.242°[7]
- Authority
- Central Intelligence Agency[14]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 34.169°, 73.242°
- End time
- May 2, 2011[6]
- Has effect
- death of Osama bin Laden[20]
- Has goal
- death of Osama bin Laden
- Official name
- Operation Neptune’s Spear[19]
- Participant
- United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, VMAQ-4, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Special Activities Division, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA and US Joint Special Operations Command team[8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Start point
- Jalalabad Airport[18]
- Start time
- May 1, 2011[5]
- Target
- Osama bin Laden[4]
- Uses
- Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, SIG Sauer P226, M4, Heckler & Koch MP7, Boeing CH-47 Chinook, noise-cancelling headset, M134 Minigun, night vision device, RQ-170 Sentinel[22][23][24][25]
- Victim(s)
- Osama bin Laden, Khalid bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
🏷️ Also known as
en Operation Geronimo
en Operation Neptune Spear
cs Operace Neptunovo kopí
es Operacion Lanza de Neptuno
es Operación Lanza de Neptuno
fr opération Neptune Spear
pl Operacja Neptune Spear
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Depicted by 3
Victim(s) 2
Authority 1
Has effect 1
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Summary
Operation Neptune Spear is a covert operation[1].