f-117

Dear Colleagues, although this subject appeared in numerous discussions and publications, can you explain to a layman how an SNR-125 Low Blow managed to get a lock on an F-117 and to shoot it down on 27 March 1999? Can this kind of radar operating on the I/D band indeed lock on a stealth plane...

It appears to have partly about not wanting to risk the more sensitive F-22 on certain missions. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/one-of-the-f-117s-secretly-deployed-to-the-middle-east-to-take-part-in-oir-made-emergency-landing-in-kuwait-scramble-magazine-says/

There are reports, a photo and a video all surfacing on the internet of an F-117A flying on two different days within the past two weeks over Nevada. Could be a hoax. ???

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/av/lectures.asp "Recollections from a Pilot of Have Blue and Tacit Blue" by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ken Dyson - March 14, 2007 "An F-117 was Shot Down in Combat" by Lt. Col. Dale Zelko - Jan. 25, 2006 etc.

Some ideas of what the F-117 might look like from the 1980s Source: Bill Gunston, Warplanes of the Future Salamander 1986