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A '''stealth fighter''' is a type of military [[airplane|aircraft]] designed to be harder to detect by [[radar]], or other detection methods. The first stealth fighter was the [[F-117]], first used secretly in [[Panama]] in 1989, and openly in the first [[Gulf War]], where it was the only aircraft permitted to conduct sorties over [[Baghdad]]. The F-117 cost about $500 million per copy, of which about 30 were built. The first time it came up against a modern [[Russia]]n missile defense system in the illegal [[NATO]] war [[Serbia]] in 1998, it was shot down, rendering its design and production obsolete.

Newer stealth fighters include the [[F-22 Raptor]], and the [[F-35 Lightning II]]. 

==See also==
[[B-2 Spirit]]
[[Category:Military Aircraft]]