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Aircraft types incorporating stealth technology were heavily involved in Operation Allied Force. Initially forward deployed at Spangdahlem AFB in Germany, 12 Lockheed F-117As were very often the first fighter-bombers in many of NATO’s early air strikes. This example – F-117A Nighthawk serial 82-806, from the 8th EFS (49th Fighter Wing), home-based at Holloman AFB – made news when it was shot down by a V.601 surface-to-air missile fired by the 3rd Battalion, 250th Missile Brigade RV i PVO, north of Belgrade, at 20.42hrs of 27 March 1999. Its pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Dalel Zelko, was recovered a few hours later. (Artwork by Goran Sudar)