{"id":102933,"date":"2024-08-06T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/serbia-shot-down-stealth-f-117-nighthawk\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:00:11","slug":"how-a-dogged-serbian-commander-shot-down-the-stealthy-us-f-117-nighthawk-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=102933","title":{"rendered":"How A Dogged Serbian Commander Shot Down The Stealthy US F-117 Nighthawk In 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The US <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-f-117-combat\/\">used the F-117 in combat<\/a> over Serbia and, before that, during Operation Desert Storm. In 1999, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/serbia\/\">Serbia<\/a> shocked the world by shooting down a state-of-the-art stealthy American F-117 Nighthawk bomber as it carried out a bombing mission over Serbia (then still officially <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/yugoslavia\/\">Yugoslavia<\/a> but by then a rump state) using an outdated SAM system. This is how Serbia managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/shot-down\/\">shoot down<\/a> the pride of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the F-117&#8217;s shootdown was a lucky shot, it was one of two Nighthawks hit by Serbian air defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9390,408,412,124,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-117","category-history","category-military","category-serbia","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102934,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933\/revisions\/102934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}