Lockheed's Skunk Works started its development of the F-117 Nighthawk in 1977 after the U.S. Air Force requested an undetectable fighter jet capable of wiping out high-value targets. The Air Force ...

Stealth — or low-observable – technology used to be rare on aircraft, only seen on the F-117 Nighthawk and B-2 Spirit, but it's the defining feature of an entire generation of fighter jets ...

It was overkill, and really didn’t prove whether the aircraft could take on a more prepared enemy. It would be just over a year before the F-117 truly had a chance to show its potential in ...

The B-21 is expected to arrive 40 years after the US's first stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk. The F-117 was officially retired in 2008, but the Air Force is still putting the stealth jet to use.

Three F-117 jets have deployed to Duluth Air National ... is hosting the most of the 60 aircraft and 1,000 service members taking part in Northern Lightning 2023, a combat readiness exercise ...

Hill Aerospace Museum near Ogden, Utah, received its F-117 in August 2020, and the aircraft is nearing completion of an extensive restoration. The museum’s Nighthawk, serial number 82-0799 ...

Nestled below the Santa Rosa Mountains, east of the Palm Springs International Airport, is the Palm Springs Air Museum. From ...

Aaron D. Allmon II/Air Force) The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, known to the world as the “Stealth Fighter,” entered operational service in 1989 with a limited role in the invasion of Panama, but the ...