The ‘Nuclear’ explosions during Operation Desert Storm
On several missions, F-117 pilots saw spectacular explosions in the distance, with some being so impressive that they resembled a nuclear mushroom cloud. The result of the USAF’s Have Blue…
On several missions, F-117 pilots saw spectacular explosions in the distance, with some being so impressive that they resembled a nuclear mushroom cloud. The result of the USAF’s Have Blue…
‘Unfortunately, on the day Vega 31 would be taken out of the sky, the [EA-6B] Prowlers were grounded due to weather. The decision was made for the F-117s to fly…
Beginning in the 1980s, four manufacturers offered models of the F-19 Stealth Fighter: Revell, Monogram, Italeri, and Testors The first operational aircraft in the world built to take advantage of…
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan extended an invitation to Margaret Thatcher to participate in US advanced military programs, including the Space Shuttle program and the Lockheed F-117A stealth…
The least visible shape produced at the Skunk Works was a thousand times more visible than the F-117A Nighthawk shape The first operational aircraft in the world built to take…
During RED FLAG 90-1, an RAF Phantom FGR.2 (known as F-4M in the US) diverted there and returned to Nellis bearing an F-117 sticker and legend. DON’T ASK As one…
The “Project Moonflower” program intended to sell the F-117 stealth fighter to the United Kingdom when it was still a top-secret aircraft According to recently declassified documents made available by…
The F-117, which was hailed as the first airplane in the world to deploy stealth technology, never ceases to amaze and confound anybody who sees it The first six examples…
‘How were the Serbs able to shoot down an F-117 stealth aircraft? Through a combination of Complacency, Strategy, and Luck,’ Chris Morehouse, Aerospace Engineer at U.S. Air Force. The F-117A Nighthawk was the first operational…
Hoehn and Toomey learned that their intended location was maybe where Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, was staying We remember the U.S. Air Force F-117 airstrikes over Baghdad on…