So much for the technology worth bilons of dolars.

Out of 38,000 bombing runs, one stealth fighter was shot down.

Thats what billions of dollars buys you. Thats a pretty good ratio.

If the technology was junk, why did they only shoot down one?

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The ONE f-117,supposingy invisible to radar.When it was shot down by a SAM dating from 1960,the technology was compromised.The airplane can be esely be shot down.It is a wery bad airplane,poor airdynamics becouste the radar absorbing.It can cary only one bomb(internal).Cant fly over sound barrier.And it costed 250 milon dolars.And of cours the b2 cost 2 bilon dolars.
So the f-117 was shot down in the beginig of the war and it was ritired to base.
And how much the reserch costed?And there was two shot down.One fell in bosnia.
And the f-117 is to be retierd from service this year.

And I did not mean to offend anbody.

Stealth technology does not make you invisible to radar. It reduces a plane's radar cross section (RCS) to the point where it is impossible to lock onto it. From the radar's point of view, the plane appears to be the size of a bumble bee. Obviously, it much harder for a missile to hit a bumble bee than the plane sized object it was designed to hit.

Stealth technology only functions when used in a certain way. That F-117 was flying in a way that negated the benefits of stealth technology.

If Stealth technology did not work, the Serbians would have shot down more than one in the hundreds of bombing runs that were made. Correct?



If it was compromised, why was only one F-117 shot down? Wouldnt all the others have been just as easy to hit?



If it is easy, why was only one shot down?



It is also 1970's era technology.

The F-22 can not only fly at supersonic speeds, it can maintain that speed without having to use afterburners.



It performed 850 missions during the war.



Only one was shot down.



Source please.




Because we already have better planes to replace it.

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Nothing you've said has offended me. But your facts are wrong.

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...38.000 flights is nothing short of American mlitary propaganda

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Nope.

Because pilots of others were afraid of Serbian SAM facilities and flew far away from the Serbian SAM's zone of conrol. That's why Americans did not bomb crash site of downed F-117.

See above.

Uh, B-52 is also from that era. But B-52 is a real bomber, still in service by comparison to F-117 PoS.

quote :

"The ITAR-TASS news agency published a report based on the information provided by the GRU - Russian army's intelligence service. The report indicates that NATO lost three F-117A tactical stealth bombers and at least 40 other planes and over 1000 missiles."

Source

You mean - F-22 Craptors?

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On March 27, 1999, 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 an American F-117 Nighthawk.The F-117 was shot down ant the begining of the war.The airplane was remuved from combat.
And the US airforce thought that the stelth tehnolgy is reducing radar reflections.But if you ajust the radar you can detect it wery esey.and those 850 missions are propaganda.
But in those 38,000 missions how many tenks and artilery peces did they destroyed?
But ofcourse you ataked the civil targets.
And what bether airplane do you have?In 2003 how many f-22 did you have?
Oh yes f-117 did not fly over iraq in 2003.

No - NATO aimed to destroy infastructure such as oil refinaries, electricity stations, bridges and the like.

The fact that approx 500 civilians died is very regretable and a sad consequence. But NATO did NOT deliberately target civilians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/344548.stm


I just wonder how deeply the Serb Nation regrets the deliberate masacres carried out in their name?

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