Scrap them? What a waste of good aircraft.
Convert to pilotless
“Scrap them? What a waste of good aircraft.”
It’s a beautiful plane but very old stealth technology. From the days before computers could calculate rounded stealth shapes (hence all the flat panels)
Maintenance of the flat panels was absurd as they had to be re-aligned perfectly and the joints resealed for each mission. The longer you flew the aircraft without maintenance, the less stealth it became.
It’s also basically a multi-faceted brick with wings and not a “native” aerodynamic shape. Even the best pilot cannot fly it manually. Computers compensate for this but they can do even better on a “native” shape.
We are capable of building a MUCH better unmanned aircraft today than the F-117 frame. And I would bet many are already flying at Area 51