F-117 Nighthawk Shootdown over Serbia, 1999 - Animated

Summary by Krater

This video details the March 27, 1999 shootdown of a US F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft by a Serbian SA-3 missile battery during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

From the video

Answers: How was the F-117 Nighthawk shot down over Serbia in 1999?

• F-117 Nighthawk shootdown
• Operation Allied Force
• Serbian air defense tactics
• SA-3 missile battery ambush

What it concludes

• An obsolete Soviet-era SA-3 battery shot down an American F-117 stealth aircraft due to a combination of complacency, poor mission planning, and luck.
• The shootdown served as a wake-up call for the NATO military, which subsequently changed tactics and never flew unsupported anti-SAM missions again for the rest of the bombing campaign.