F-117A (“invisible“ “Stealth technology“) Shoot Down on March 27, 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

That Day The Serbs Did The Impossible And Shot Down An F-117 Nighthawk (“invisible“) The 1999 F-117A shootdown was an event that took place on 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, (Operation Allied Force, Operation Noble Anvil), when an Army of Yugoslavia unit used an S-125 Neva/Pechora to down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force. The pilot ejected and was rescued by search and rescue forces. The U.S. Air Force F-117A was developed in the 1970s, entering service in 1983 and officially revealed in 1988. It saw its first combat in 1989 over Panama and was widely seen as one of the most advanced pieces of U.S. military equipment. At the same time, Yugoslavian air defenses were seen as relatively obsolete. Downing Unknown to NATO, Yugoslav air defenses operators had found they could detect F-117s with their obsolete Soviet radars after some modifications. In 2005, Colonel Zoltán Dani confirmed this in an interview, suggesting that those modifications invo