After years in use, the F-117 was retired to make way for a new generation of stealth aircraft. So why is the legendary stealth jet still in flight?

The U.S. military's F-117 Nighthawk was an incredible stealth fighter for its time, which as a result, means it was not the fastest fighter in the U.S. arsenal.

The F-117 Nighthawk was a super-secret Lockheed project that stayed secret throughout the course of its secrecy so that the US could secretly execute air missions in secret. Appeals court rejects ...

Initially a “black project” funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), starting in 1975, Lockheed cobbled ... While the F-117 Nighthawk was used in 2001 in Afghanistan ...

the US military moved beyond just reducing radar visibility to designing fully radar-evading aircraft like Lockheed Martin's F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational stealth fighter. But the US Navy ...

The F-117 Nighthawk was developed in response to the US' need for a jet that could operate completely undetected by the enemy.

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Considering its long and secretive history, we shouldn't be terribly surprised by any news on the US Air Force's F-117 Nighthawk. The iconic stealth fighter was officially retired in 2008 ...