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Voor zover ik me herinner was d?*t de eerste X dat een stealth werd ingezet in een echte oorlogssituatie.
De Amerikanen waren 99,9 % zeker dat zo'n machine NIET kon neergehaald worden vanop de grond.
Alleen dat wilde ik aantonen.
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1989, Kosovo was 10 jaar later... in 1999
The F-117A first saw action in December 1989 during Operation Just Cause in Panama. Two F-117A fighters targeted the field outside the Panamanian Defense Forces barracks at Rio Hato with BLU-109 2,000 lb. bombs to stun and disorient the troops quartered in those barracks in preparation for an assualt by US Army Rangers. Technical failures and communications mixups caused the pilots to miss their targets, dropping the bombs farther away from the barracks than intended.
The stealth fighter attacked the most heavily fortified targets during Desert Storm (January-February 1991) , and it was the only coalition jet allowed to strike targets inside Baghdad's city limits