Stealth jet quietly slips into history

Toronto Star ^ | Thu. Nov. 2, 2006 | Bill Taylor

[A.A. Cunningham]

By chance. The AA missile battery commander admitted he just fired his missiles into the flight path that NATO aircraft had been using.

That's not what he said and not what we've known since 1999. Air Force arrogance, poor tactics and the inherent susceptibility to detection by low band radar is what brought down that F-117. Simply detuning the radar was usually all that was necessary.

Serb discusses 1999 downing of stealth

'"We used a little innovation to update our 1960s-vintage SAMs to detect the Nighthawk," Dani said. He declined to discuss specifics, saying the exact nature of the modification to the warhead's guidance system remains a military secret.

It involved "electromagnetic waves," was all that Dani - who now owns a small bakery in this sleepy village just north of Belgrade - would divulge.'

[Old Professer]

They're probably edited by the same guys who decided pigeon poop was not harmful to people but ought to be kept off statues.

[FYREDEUS]

So was I...it was so ODD looking with it's angularity but I didn't think it was sinister exactly...though it did occur to me that it looked like something Darth Vader might fly, or maybe Batman.