How the US military's first stealth aircraft got shot down

An F-117 Nighthawk over Death Valley, February 27, 2019.
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When the F-117 Nighthawk arrived in 1983, it was the US military's first stealth aircraft.
When a F-117 was shot down over the Balkans in 1999, it showed that stealth didn't mean invulnerable.
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Stealth is all the rage today when it comes to military aviation, and it remains a defining characteristic for today's fifth-generation fighter aircraft.But the stealthy warplane