F-117 Stealth Fighter: What You Need To Know

Following the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force desired an aircraft stealthy enough to evade the Soviet Union’s increasingly advanced surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). For years, the development process that produced the F-117 fighter was a black project – a highly classified program that only a handful of Pentagon officials even knew about. 

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