Is this true?

[Aussie Digger]

Of course it could be shot down by rival jets if spotted, the F-117 is not designed for air combat and in fact has no capability for it at all. It relies on it's excellent stealth characteristics and advanced electronic warfare self-protection suites for it's survival (not to mention USAF air superiority...).

It is not invincible, no jet is not even the F-22, it is however a superb strike aircraft that has performed excellently. Can someone name another strike aircraft that has gone into harms way as many times as it has alone and totally unsupported and done as well? I doubt it...

 

[Gremlin29]

The question remains as to wether or not the downed F-117 was a result of excellence on the part of Serb anti-air or was it a case of the "Golden BB"? It's humorous to me that when an American system is defeated so many folks jump up and down about how it's not "invincible". Yeah 1 F-117 was downed, big deal. Does anyone know how many combat hours the F-117's have logged?

 

[Pathfinder-X]

Of course it could be shot down by rival jets if spotted, the F-117 is not designed for air combat and in fact has no capability for it at all. It relies on it's excellent stealth characteristics and advanced electronic warfare self-protection suites for it's survival (not to mention USAF air superiority...).

It is not invincible, no jet is not even the F-22, it is however a superb strike aircraft that has performed excellently. Can someone name another strike aircraft that has gone into harms way as many times as it has alone and totally unsupported and done as well? I doubt it...

Actually it does have limited air to air capability. I seen a pic where an F-117 was carrying an AIM-9 missiles in its internal weapons bay.

 

[india2020]

i read another version that the f-117 was shot down by a mig-29 that happened to be nearby:?

The F-117 may be invisible....................but if its spotted by rival jets................then its a sitting duck.It is not great in dogfights............infact i doubt if it can do any DOGFIGHTS.And a missile is all it takes to get it out of the sky. :smokingc:

A few things you appear to have missed:

1) It's not meant to be invisible - that is not what stealth is.
2) It's not designed for dogfighting - it's a stealth strike platform
3) Fail to use it for it's tasking - and it will get compromised.

therefore, assuming that you understand what the F-117 is designed for - why make blindingly obvious comments?? - whats your point??

when i said invisible......................it meant invisible to radars.And i do presume that the f-117 was designed only for prescision bombing and that is why i said it isnt great at dogfights.In iraq..............the f-117 was always used under the cover of night and that makes it even more harder to spot.