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Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
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Kosovo War
1998–1999 armed conflict in Kosovo
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
American stealth ground-attack aircraft
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1999 F-117A shootdown
1999 aviation accident in Yugoslavia
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia amid the Kosovo War, a Yugoslav Army unit shot down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft of the United States Air Force by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro
Military forces of Serbia and Montenegro
The Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro included ground forces with internal and border troops, naval forces, air and air defense forces, and civil defense. From 1992 to 2003, the VSCG was called the Yugoslav Army, created from the remnants of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA),…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)