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death of USAF STEALTH war planes. mass funeral

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http://gizmodo.com/5052279/f-117-stealth-fighter-%2B-caterpillar-crusher--pile-of-sadness


F-117 Stealth Fighter + Caterpillar Crusher = Pile of Sadness
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STEALTH FIGHTER
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The last F-117 stealth fighter was retired a few months ago. Most of the fleet is now stationed in a special retirement village all its own at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, where they await their fate. This fate. Hopefully, for humanitarian reasons, the first Nighthawk to the slaughter seen here was done privately, quietly, out back-to avoid upsetting the others. It looks like it was...

Yes, this is a Caterpillar quickly reducing one of the most groundbreaking fighter aircraft the world has seen to a smoking heap of scrap. Because while they will always look like they're from the future, the Nighthawk's facet-based stealth tech has its origins in the 1970s, and will be replaced by the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning's more advanced systems, which are also cheaper to maintain. What is it about seeing stealth aircraft in a less-than-together state? Reassuring to know such scary-good tech is human, after all? [Ares]




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I was a student in the US during the 80s when I first came across news of the F-117 Nighthawk. A pentagon spokesperson was blaring out angrily at the nation's media for releasing news of this highly secret aircraft before it was put into service. Apparently a Japanese toy/model maker Hasegawa managed to obtain some specs of the plane and started to sell scale models of this plane in the stores even before the military released news of the model to the public! So much for hushed-up military secrets. If a toymaker like Hasegawa have got the inside scoop of US military secrets, imagine what kind of information enemy agencies like the KGB have access to?

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Should have sold them to singapore. We need these to fly in more FTs quietly.

PAP always love to squander billions of tax dollars on US karangooni junk weapons for purpose of showing off (stupidity) during fucking CB NDP.

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http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/bomber/f117/pics04.shtml

Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk
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On 26 August 2008, the Full Scale Development YF-117A known as Article 784 was scrapped at the US Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

The operation began by first removing the secretive leading edge structures and radar absorbant materials covering the exterior of the plane. The latter typically contains highly toxic substances that must be processed for safe disposal.

With these stealth measures removed, the F-117 is little different from any other outdated plane no longer needed by the military. The remainder of the scrapping process was therefore quite low tech. A demolition vehicle completed the task using shears to cut off the wings and break up the remains of the fuselage.

The scrapping was said to be a test of the best methods for disposing of the F-117 fleet now stored at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The aircraft were moved to the remote facility following the retirement of the Nighthawk earlier in the year.

Although it has been stated the remaining F-117 fleet is to be preserved in a condition making it possible to reactivate the planes at a future date, if necessary, the destruction of Article 784 suggests the Air Force is instead planning to dispose of the stealthy attack bombers.

Article 784 was the fifth and final pre-production prototype of the F-117. The first four have been preserved as displays at the Air Force Museum in Ohio, Blackbird Airpark in California, Nellis AFB in Nevada, and Holloman AFB in New Mexico.


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