Well, there are a lot of these jets going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that stealth fighters aren’t safe.
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Confirmation that the ground is anti stealth. Russian war planners are celebrating.
The entire left half of this image really unsettles me, and the right half looks normal and safe.
Is this AI or some sort of weird censorship or just bad lighting / camera artefacts?
I remember watching these taking off and landing in the early 90s and it convinced me that I could never believe someone who tells me that they saw an alien UFO. Because these move in such bizarre ways. They were UFOS and I knew exactly what I was watching
Oooof. How many millions did that cost....?
Not sure. The airframe was repaired and flying again by 1998. The cost to produce a brand new F-117 was about $108 million, so the repair of this one was probably "only" a few million.
At least 3 rolls of speed tape
AI slop?
The faces of the people on the left look rather odd, could be deliberate blurring but it looks off to me.
The image might be but the crash its referring to is quite real apparently! http://www.f-117a.com/793.html
Also why does the F 117 have its own website? This was quite the little rabbit hole.
It makes an interesting sci-fi novel book cover:

Could well be an "upscaled" image from grainy source material (pre or post "AI" upscaling).
Not sure. It’s got the look of an old image that’s been saved too many times and over sharpened.

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