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Not So Tough Now, Scrapping the Stealth Fighters

By Glen Taylor - September 19, 2008

in Events

You can be sure scrapping the retired fleet of F-117 Nighthawks is not part of a government recycling program. Developed after experience with the increased sophistication of Soviet surface-to-air missiles in Vietnam, the F-117's first flight was in 1981 but it wasn't publicly acknowledged by the US Air Force until 1988.

The last plane to fly was on August 11, 2008 to the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada where a special retirement village houses the remaining stealth fighters while they await their fate with a monster Caterpillar out back.

via gizmodo

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kyle k

14 years ago

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thats such a waste of an art. i REALLY hope the airforce keeps some of them for air craft musums. its amazing peace of equipment. its a shame to see even one the way it does in this pic. it amost makes u want to cry
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Igor Kolar

16 years ago

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Noooo =( such pretty planes... such a waste damn it ... Regardless of being a machine of war or not, it's a beautiful machine that shouldn't suffer like that. Surely it can be recycled and the one in the picture doesn't exactly look stripped down...
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