Shooting Down the Stealth Fighter: Eyewitness Accounts from Those Who Were There Mijajlovic
Shooting Down the Stealth Fighter: Eyewitness Accounts from Those Who Were There Mijajlovic With its futuristic and unmistakable design, the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, the so-called 'Stealth…
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Shooting Down the Stealth Fighter: Eyewitness Accounts from Those Who Were There Mijajlovic
With its futuristic and unmistakable design, the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, the so-called 'Stealth Fighter', was the wonder of the age. Its effectiveness had been well demonstrated during the Gulf War of 1991, during which the F-117A achieved almost legendary status. Virtually undetectable by radar, this ground-attack aircraft could slip unseen through enemy defences to deliver its deadly payload on unsuspecting targets.
It was, and remains, at least officially, the only time that a stealth aircraft was But, at 20.42 hours on 27 March 1999, the military and aviation worlds were stunned when the impossible happened - a virtually obsolete Soviet-built surface-to-air missile system which had first been developed more than thirty years earlier, detected and shot down an F-117A, callsign 'Vega 31'.This incident took place during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.
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