Actually 2-3 times once in the balkans the aircraft has its Stealth on but was detected by some sort of advanced radar built for detecting stealth. It was then shot down by a Russian 1960's missle system the other one or two were shot down in Gulf War 1 ill go look it up again just for you. I remember stumbling across it while reading through some crap about.... nothing just lookin at all the civilian casualties in that war and the cruise missle strikes particularly on the city of Belgrade. I ran into a US Airforce log of the aircraft it has lost since after vietnam ill see if i can dig it up.cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
F117 has been shot down only once. It was because the guy turned off his stealth systems and got shot down by a lucky rocket. B2's are expensive as fuck imo. Not worth the money... but you must have it for long range bombingMogura wrote:
PS: For that price you dont even have to make war, you just ..... buy the country :pMogura wrote:
B2 ? dude, ok its great plane, but did you know that it cost about 2billion follars !? experts say it cost more than his weight in pure gold !!!
Wikipedia says 1 other sites say 3 i dont trust wiki though cause its open source but ill continue searching tommorow heres a bit of info.
One F-117 has been lost in combat, to Serbian/Yugoslav forces. On March 27, 1999, during the Kosovo War, the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Missile Brigade under the command of Colonel Zoltán Dani, equipped with the Isayev S-125 'Neva-M' (NATO designation SA-3 'Goa'), downed F-117A serial number 82-806 with a Neva-M missile. According to Wesley Clark and other NATO generals, Yugoslav air defenses found that they could detect F-117s with their "obsolete" Soviet radars operating on long wavelengths. This, combined with the loss of stealth when the jets got wet or opened their bomb bays, made them visible on radar screens. The pilot survived and was later rescued by NATO forces. However, the wreckage of the F-117 was not promptly bombed, and the Serbs are believed to have invited Russian personnel to inspect the remains, inevitably compromising the US stealth technology. They used long wavelengths which can detect aircraft which have been wet or have open cargo bays. This is stupid because at an altitude of 30 000 the aircraft will pick up vapour while it may not leave trails it will be wet.
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