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		jariel on Feb 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down m... It's running 10-15K mission hours a year since 1960, that's pretty far from obsolete.

jki275 on Feb 8, 2021 [–]

Yeah, I know what it does -- it's had many different missions grafted onto it. It's a cool plane.

But I mean it's obsolete for its original mission. It can't fly higher than Soviet SAMs anymore. It hasn't been able to since the 60s.

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