Former US officers acknowledge that the Yugoslavia shot injured an F-117, but it was returned instead of the fate with the previous stealth aircraft.

On the evening of March 27, 1999, the F-117A Nighthawk brought the title Vega 31 to be controlled by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Zelko into history when it became the first American stealth aircraft shot down in combat.

Many rumors believe that this is not the only F-117A that hit the Yugoslavia, but this information was only confirmed recently by former Charlie Hainline Lieutenant Colonel, one of the F-117A pilots to join the campaign

At that time, Hainline was payrolled to the 9th fierce crew stationed at the Spangdahlem base in Germany.

Each Nighthawk only brought two laser led bombs in the body and often used them to attack a target.

"Interesting night" of Hainline witnessed the task of two F-117A with parallel routes, aimed at two individual goals in 15 km apart.

"That night, the Nunnese air defense mainly fired fire artillery, the same number of missiles," Hainline recalls, adding that many types of missiles are deployed, including the S-125 system each shot down Vega 31.

The F-117A plane is always duty with the support of electronic battle aircraft like EF-111 Raven and EA-6B Prowlers.

The Vega 31 shot was the only time NATO acknowledged that the EA-6B could not start as a duty due to bad weather, unknown whether the same situation happened with the event described by Hainline.

That night, the F-16CJ fighters are responsible for detecting and processing a non-Juuzeng, relying on the AGM-88 Harm radar warning and missile system.

"I looked at Belgrade on the right and saw a huge missile rushing up, like the Saturn missile launch on the moon. I know my teammates are nearby.

F-117A pilots are trained that it must maintain the automatic steering system in this case, due to gliding or tilting planes can increase the radar reflective area and make the missile easier to stick to targets.

Hainline leaves a Yugoslavia to the army with an oil relay, but the other F-117A does not appear as planned.

The Nest of KC-135 then discovered an F-117A approaching the darkness without the detection lights.

The plane quickly loses a high height as soon as the oil relay, causing Hainline and the KC-135 driver is surprised.

"It disappears again on the way back to Germany, but both F-117A aircraft landed safely down to Spangdahlem", Hainline said.

Hainline also stressed that the room mesh is not really concerned with the F-117A in all fighting situations.