The Only American Stealth Fighter Ever Shot Down

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The stealth fighter jet F-117 Nighthawk was supposed to be invisible. Thanks to its sleek design and coating of radar-absorbent material, shooting down one of these American aircraft seemed an impossible feat. But in March of 1999, a few days into the NATO airstrikes over Yugoslavia, the Yugoair defenses located and brought down one of them down, making it the only F-117 lost to enemy action in its 26 years of operation. For an army that relied on mostly obsolete technology successfully brought down a highly advanced stealth aircraft, it was a stunningly strategic coup pulled off by one very lucky Serbian colonel…

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