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The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, subsonic twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). It was the first operational aircraft to be designed with stealth technology.
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit shot down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft of the United States Air Force by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth technology airplane.
F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft explicitly designed around stealth technology.. Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of technologies that reduce reflection/emission of radar, infrared, [1] visible light, radio frequency (RF) spectrum, and audio, collectively known as stealth technology. [2]
The plane's base was also identified as being Tonopah Airport. In January 1988, Armed Forces Journal revealed the aircraft's actual designation was the F-117 Nighthawk. More important, the "big secret" of stealth, faceting, was starting to leak out.
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One showed a triangular aircraft similar to America's retired F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, with some notable differences. ... Both prototype aircraft appear to be flying wing designs, which ...
The aircraft was damaged beyond repair, but some of its parts could be salvaged. [5] On 10 November 1988, the long-rumored existence of the F-117 Stealth Fighter was finally officially confirmed by the Pentagon. [5] In 1990 the last F-117A was delivered. and the flight test squadron no longer had to perform acceptance flights at Groom Lake.
An F-117 Nighthawk with a T-38 Talon chase plane flying over Tonopah Test Range Airport. In November 1988 the Air Force formally acknowledged its F-117 activities at Tonopah, bringing what was a "black world" program into "gray world" status. However, F-117 flight operations continued to be restricted to the nighttime hours.