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When an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter was shot down over Serbia in 1999, it was feared to be an “unmitigated disaster,” says Jonathan Reed Winkler, a professor at Wright State University who specializes in foreign relations and military history.
But Winkler points out that the U.S. military had already been flying the craft for nearly two decades.
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