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 (USAF) by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth aircraft.
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 (USAF) by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth aircraft.
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