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Posted on 07/21/2025 4:40:42 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s first operational stealth aircraft, was a revolutionary bomber deceptively designated as a “fighter” to attract the Air Force’s best pilots. Born from the top-secret “Have Blue” program, the “Wobblin’ Goblin” proved its worth during the 1991 Gulf War, where it struck heavily defended targets in Baghdad with impunity on the opening night of the air campaign.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-retired-f-117-stealth-fighter-still-soaring-us-air-force-210244
https://theaviationist.com/2025/04/27/spotter-captures-f-117s-groom-lake/
I was in a convertible, driving southbound on A1A right at the landing threshold when a pair of 117’s flew over to land. Amazing! they were only a few hundred feet over me. That is when PSFB was still PAFB and they did airshows.
I worked in the DoD supporting the Navy Warfighter from 1989 to 2019 at a depot level maintenance facility.
Although the Knighthawk is/was an Airforce platform, my facility performed all the rework and overhaul on the F1D2 power plants for years.
The F1D2 is an off-shoot of the F-404 turbine engine that powers the F-18 Hornet that we maintained so we had the capability and tooling etc. to do the work.
The F-117 began development in the 70s, by the time it saw the light of day in the 90s people saw it as otherworldly.....now that we have the B-2.....who knows what’s out there that we DON’T know about.
So, what are the 4 words?
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In my age damaged memory.....They were slow, sluggish, unstable and of limited payload compared to contemporary planes of the same size.
They had “one trick”, a tiny radar and heat signature making them nearly impossible to “see”, let alone target by the latest SAM systems.
Then Serbs discovered their obsolete Soviet “long wave” radars lit them up like torches at a Klan rally.
The Serbs downed one and paraded the parts through the streets of Belgrade with the sign “Look at me! I am invisible.”
It was a reference to the catch phrase of the character Burt in the comedy series “Soap”.
That’s my contribution, but what do I know and I do not feel strongly about it.
Word on the street is that they're working on some new fangled shuttle to get into space. I think they're going to call it the "Space Shuttle".
I was in Newport News during Desert Shield and they were flying over us all day
Oh, wow! Cool, man!
There was the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, the industrial revolution, the information age, and now we are in the clickbait age. “These four words (given after paragraph 36) describe the F-117.”
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The 4 words are I. Am. A. Blogpimp.
Not true at all.
They couldn't see them, but they flew the same altitude course and pattern on every bombing mission. They could hear them overhead but couldn't paint them, except intermittingly with any radar. So they set a trap to fire the missile the moment it flew overhead.
I thought its undoing is when it opened its bomb B’day doors, which ruined its stealth. I don’t think new Russian radar is what did it.
Full story here:
Correct. See my link.
It's difficult to discern from the crappy writing, but the four word summary appears to be "The First Stealth Fighter". Such insightful commentary...
”Remember, drink more Ovaltine.”
I heard way back then and always believed that it was called a Fighter to throw the soviets off so that they would concentrate on making their own stealth fighter, something the USAF thought was impossible in the 70s/80s.
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