I dun know. But stealth? I seem to recall a F-117A getting shot down over Kosovo by a AAM.Originally posted by ray243:what about the f-23?
ho boh????Originally posted by SBS1908B:I dun know. But stealth? I seem to recall a F-117A getting shot down over Kosovo by a AAM.
It DID get shot down and it made REALLY BIG NEWS... Think you weren't watching...Originally posted by Lance_han:ho boh????
u gotta be pulling my legs\hands\ears![]()
nv heard of it...should have made big news if it was true...![]()



realli...nv watch it...when was it then???Originally posted by aerozapper:It DID get shot down and it made REALLY BIG NEWS... Think you weren't watching...
Near Belgrade in 1999 Kosovo war.Originally posted by Lance_han:realli...nv watch it...when was it then???![]()
orh...but it's just a theory rite???Originally posted by coolant:Near Belgrade in 1999 Kosovo war.
1 conspiracy saying is: because Chinese operated some kind of Elctronical detectionware in the China Embassy that led to the down of a Stealth F117. a few days later, a also stealth B2 bomber flew all the way from US mainland and dropped 5 1 ton bombs into the Chinese Embassy...
that's the price to pay for being over-confidence. how many vietnam do they need before they stopped looking down on their tech-inferior opponent.Originally posted by |-|05|:It was shot down because the USAF used the same route and at the same time a few days in a row.....the just pointed they're Anti Air stuff there and waited.
The A-10 uses twin fins to mask the heat sig of the engines.Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Stealth is not invincible, if you get close enough to a radar, or are unlucky enough to have any microscopic flaws in your aircraft construction, it will be far easier to see you, and once the F117 is aquired, it is a dead duck. Stealth is not cloaking, it is the delaying of detection.
And of course, the F117 is not exactly stealthy in the IR spectrum, though it is far less observable then most other aircraft, in fact, IR is one of the nuts that have yet to be cracked by stealth engineers.