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Re:New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their F... by netsharc on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:06AM (#17642841)
> a) landing on an aircraft carrier Interestingly, the real life F117 can't land on aircraft carriers, only the game version could. And in the game you can also shoot at air targets and even have machine guns for dog fights, in real life it's just a plane that bombs targets on the ground.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-navys-secret-...

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Re:New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their F... by hudibras on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:15AM (#17643384)
The F-19 air-to-air missions were some of the most intense gameplay I've ever experienced. You had to fly deep into Soviet territory and kick off the war by shooting down an airborne command plane or an airborne early warning plane, and then make it out alive as World War 3 literally started around you.
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Re:New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their F... by greedo on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:21AM (#17645027)
This was a scenario from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
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Re:New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their F... by rjsw on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:06AM (#17643570)
The article in your link ignores the A-12 project [1] that had been going on during the timeframe described.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...

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Re:New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their F... by DuskStar on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:36PM (#17647785)
Not to be confused with the A-12 project that actually flew [0] - coincidentally also a Skunk Works plane.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12

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