Se nedan:
"Yugoslavia has downed one USAF F-117 fighter just outside of Belgrade. Yugoslav television has released footage of the crash scene, which shows aircraft number AF 82806, modex HO. The pilot Lt. Dale Zelco (according to Kevin Helm of the F-117A: Aircraft Defense Information Center, Dale Zelco was not the pilot involved) of the 8FS, was rescued approximately 6 hours following the crash. USAF states that the F-117 downing was the result of three factors.
1. Yugoslav AA defences adapting to the airstrikes and finding ways to work around their limitations
2. The F-117 aircraft were following the same bombing route to their targets, and the Yugoslav defenders picked up on this and moved SAM sites along the paths of the incoming raids. The F-117 was downed by a multi-missile salvo of SA-3s. One or more of them detonated near enough to the F-117 to damage it with flying shrapnel.
3. EA-6B jamming aircraft assigned to protect the F-117 was too distant to provide effective jamming. As a result the F-117 was more visible to radar than usual.
Yugoslavia claims the F-117 was downed by a Yugoslav AF Mig-21, reported to be flown by Ppolk. Gvozden Dijukich
Sources: Air Forces Monthly, No.138 September 1999 and CNN broadcasts."
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