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March 10th 08, 02:43 PM
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F-117 to be retired this year
Darkwing wrote:
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123088771 Doesn't seem like they have been around long enough to retire them. According to the article 27 years and I'd bet they main reason is they probably need to be re-skinned in order to maintain their stealth. And that would probably cost more now than building them did when they were new. 
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