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serpa6
10-08-2012, 09:08 PM
http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb/492_10530.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=1338) This is the 4th time I am trying a vid response to a comment about a vid Why Iran should fear the US
The reason I say that the 117 is being refited Its airframe its landing gear f -15 they are still pounding targets today The computers will be updated the plane will be stretch out a little to accumodate this weapon here in which I think will be one of the many upgrades for the Killer plane Less assets going in More targets taken outhttp://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=1338)

kiwi68
10-08-2012, 11:56 PM
Are you talking about F-117 NightHawk or the F-15E Strike Eagle ???

Sixx
10-09-2012, 12:09 AM
He's talking about the F-117.
I believe on another upload some people said that the F-117 is done forever.

But it's not. 'Officially' retired yes.....completely mothballed no. They are in regenerative storage.
They still fly and has been seen flying recently.

serpa6
10-09-2012, 02:56 AM
The f 117 the part about the f-15 is its airframe that is what the f117 has and the eagle is alot older then the 117 that is why I said not retired Just being upgraded :D

schwit
10-09-2012, 08:30 AM
Simple tweaks to 1960's SAM radars makes the F117 obsolete. Why waste the money?

BrendenF11
10-09-2012, 10:57 AM
@ schwit, and COIN operations which will be the dominant form of combat for US forces in the forseeable future make the F-117 nonobsolete. Using an aircraft like this instead of wearing down our more advanced and necessary aircraft seems like a good option. The taliban doesn't have SAM's.

Sixx
10-09-2012, 02:22 PM
schwit

There was a whole lot more stuff involved with shooting that F-117 down in Kosovo.
It wasn't just some simple tweaks of Soviet scrap.