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Description
The F-117A Nighthawk is the world's first operational aircraft designed to exploit low-observable stealth technology.

History and Features
The first F-117A was delivered in 1982, and the last delivery was in the summer of 1990. The first flight was in 1981, only 31 months after the full-scale development decision. Air Combat Command's only F-117A unit, the 4450th Tactical Group, (now the 49th Fighter Wing, Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.), achieved operational capability in October 1983.

The F-117 first saw combat in 1989 in Operation Just Cause in Panama, when two F-117s from Nellis Air Base dropped several 2,000 pound bombs on the Panamanian Defence Forces 6th and 7th Infantry Division at Rio Hato. The F-117 also saw extensive combat action with great success in Operation Desert Storm, and recently in NATO Operation Allied Force where one Nighthawk was lost for the first time in combat.

General Characteristics
Primary function: Attack
Contractor: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.
Power plant: Two General Electric F404 engines
Wing span: 43 feet, 4 inches (13.3 meters)
Length: 65 feet, 11 inches (20.3 meters)
Height: 12 feet, 5 inches (3.8 meters)
Speed: High subsonic
Maximum takeoff weight: 52,500 pounds (23,625 kilograms)
Ceiling: 52,000 feet (15,000 meters)
Range: Combat radius about 691 miles (1,112 km)
Crew: One
Armament: Standard weapons are the AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile, AGM-65 Maverick ASM, GBU-19 and GBU-27 optronically guided bombs, BLU-109 laser-guided bomb. The F-117 also can carry the B61 free-fall nuclear bomb.
Unit Cost: $45 million
Date deployed: July 1982