Agreed on the confusing bomb issue......there would be damage and reports from the public.
As for the helicopters being black, heli's were my taxi ride for years in South Armagh, have you seen a helicopter at night? They all look black from
that distance! Especialy the green ones, which lets face it, most army heli's are.
I'd go more with what BorgHoffen said, maybe a specialist police unit training or something, even a real operation maybe? The stun grenades would
definately explain the bangs.
The guy in the video says he "thinks they are Apache's", this either means two things, he can't see well enough to see if it's an Apache, or his
heli recognition skills are pretty poor. If you know your heli's, it's not hard to recognise one.
Either way, he can't be sure. So it could just be a police chopper, or a couple of them, no?
I know if i was that close that i could film it like that, i'd be all over the scene the next day asking residents about what they saw or heard.
Someone would know if a place had been raided.....and they'd definately know if thier neighbour had been bombed!
CX.