The Lockheed F-117 Night Hawk is a later Cold War icon and is famous for being one of the most closely guarded black box projects. It was the first operational stealth, or more accurately, low-observable, combat aircraft. The F-117 was a harbinger of things to come. In Serbia, the Nighthawk remains a major source of nationalist pride for the nation that was forced to withdraw its forces from Kosovo in a nationally traumatic period of history. However, the implications of the successful Serbian intercept of one (maybe two) F-117s are often overstated. Hundreds of missions were flown in combat with…