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Twelve years after it was officially withdrawn from use, the American “invisible” F-117 “night hawk” aircraft is in use again. The aircraft, which is made with so-called stealth technology with a very small radar reflection, is intended for inadvertent penetration and attack on important targets on the ground, and is now used to train the US military.
That is, as the British “Daily Mail” writes, two F-117s were seen and photographed last month at the Miramar base near San Diego, on the west coast of the United States. From there, they took off on a mission over the Pacific, after which they returned directly to the Tonopa base in Nevada, where these aircraft were placed after “scrapping.”
According to aviation experts, they most likely simulated enemy aviation for the needs of the US Navy in order to hone anti-stealth technologies and tactics. That is, Russia and China are supposed to have stealth aircraft whose characteristics correspond to those of the “night hawk.”
In recent years it became clear that the “invisible” were flying again, when, unexpectedly, they were filmed in the sky of the United States. Fans of aviation and photography, the so-called spotters, immediately posted these amazing images on social media.
Even more intriguing is that these aircraft, meanwhile, appear to have been used in war-torn areas as well. Thus, it was reported that in 2017 four F-117s were deployed in the Middle East and that they carried out tasks over Syria of which the public does not know anything more specific.
These aircraft were officially out of use in the US Air Force in 2008. By the way, the F-117 was developed in the late 1970s and first took off in 1981. It was not shown to the public. until 1990, and it gained worldwide fame in the First Gulf War in 1991, when the myth of its “invisibility” was created and used in subsequent American actions in the Middle East.
This myth, to the amazement of the world public, was destroyed during NATO’s aggression against the Yugoslav Republic of Yugoslavia. It was on March 27, 1999, when the Yugoslav Army’s 250 Missile Brigade Third Division shot down an “invisible” that crashed near Budjanovci with an old Soviet “neva” missile fired from the Šimanovac area. Pilot Dale Zelko successfully catapulted and landed with a parachute, and was evacuated by helicopter by US special forces in dramatic action.
The aforementioned division was re-established in the Serbian army some time ago and was recently the first to be equipped with modern Russian anti-aircraft artillery and “armored” missile systems.
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