After years in use, the F-117 was retired to make way for a new generation of stealth aircraft. So why is the legendary stealth jet still in flight?

Born out of the U.S. Air Force's request for a radar-defying bomber, the F-117 Nighthawk is one of the most prolific fighter jets ever to hit the skies. Known in its heyday as a nearly invisible ...

Initially a “black project” funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), starting in 1975, Lockheed cobbled ... While the F-117 Nighthawk was used in 2001 in Afghanistan ...

The F-117 Nighthawk was developed in response to the US' need for a jet that could operate completely undetected by the enemy.

Driven by the Soviet Union's advancements in radar and missile systems, the US military moved beyond just reducing radar visibility to designing fully radar-evading aircraft like Lockheed Martin's ...

Considering its long and secretive history, we shouldn't be terribly surprised by any news on the US Air Force's F-117 Nighthawk. The iconic stealth fighter was officially retired in 2008 ...