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Posted on 07/25/2025 5:27:22 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Despite being officially retired in 2008, the U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a fleet of approximately 45 F-117A Nighthawk stealth aircraft (or commonly known as the F-117 Stealth Fighter) will continue flying until at least 2034. The iconic jets are not designed for combat, but now serve in critical new roles. They act as “red air” aggressors for realistic pilot training, test advanced technologies like new “mirror-like” coatings, and serve as proxies for other stealth platforms.
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out... One word... "Drones"... They're the plastics of the future.
Too much money invested in that platform to just retire it completely.
Sounds to me like the taxpayers are actually getting what we paid for.
Are there any in museums?
I’ll admit I haven’t been to an Air Force museum in a while. I have been to P’cola relatively recently. They certainly don’t have one, or didn’t, I would have remembered that.
I need to get back to Warner-Robbins and Eglin, it has been a while. 24 years on W-R, that was a post 9/11 excursion, remember all the add-on gate security. And maybe 30 years on Eglin.
Pretty sure they have one in Ohio at USAF museum there. I think maybe the one that dropped first ordnance of Desert Storm if memory serves.
If true, our military is in way worse condition than I had imagined.
“Despite being officially retired in 2008, the U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a fleet of approximately 45 F-117A Nighthawk stealth aircraft (or commonly known as the F-117 Stealth Fighter) will continue flying until at least 2034.”
I didn’t think our military was capable of acting RATIONALLY in this way...considering everything else that I read.
Yeah, it has been probably 50 years since I’ve been up there (!!).
So a friend of a friend owned a 1st gen COD (also !!!). With the big Pratt &Whitney radials, 2nd gen is turboprop. He donated it to one of the museums, I’m not sure where it’s at, but it’s not at P’cola.
I think he still has his T-28 trainer, I got a ride in it once. Very memorable.
I think there’s a lot more rationality coming. Go read the first comment here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4330613/posts?page=1
The first is located in Oregon:
AI excerpt:
“Yes, an F-117 Nighthawk is located at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The specific F-117 is serial number 85-0816, nicknamed “Lone Wolf”, and is undergoing restoration. This particular aircraft was the first F-117 to drop a bomb during Operation Desert Storm. The museum also hosted a special event called “The Nighthawk Experience” to commemorate its arrival.”
“”Lohmeier was fired from command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado in 2021 after appearing on a podcast to discuss his self-published book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military.” “
Nice, and EXACTLY why they hate Hegseth.
We need at least another 8 years of this after Trump47. Too many Republicans get complacent after a win like Trump’s.
Why? It’s 50 year old stealth technology that is still serving a critical purpose. That is no reflection on current stealth capabilities or readiness. I’d say we more than got our money’s worth from this program.
If you don't read the newspapers, then you are uninformed.
If you read the newspapers, then you are misinformed.
Oh? Then what were they designed for, crop dusting?
Of course the F117s were designed for combat.
The word designed should be replaced with designated.
Such terrible writing these days.
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