The F-117, commonly called the Stealth Fighter, is being retired. Here's a short video from the Air Force detailing the retirement of the Stealth Fighter fleet to the boneyards.
The F-117 was scrapped because it was an older plane with limited capabilities which was taking up money the Air Force desperately wants to go to newer more capable planes. In fact, the Stealth Fighter is not really a fighter at all but a light bomber. It could drop two bombs but had no other armament. The plane was subsonic and so vulnerable to enemy fighters that it only flew at night. The new F-22A Raptor is faster, better armed, more flexible, and more stealthy than the 1980's vintage Stealth Fighter.
The Air Force is desperate to get more of the expensive F-22 and F-35 fighters.
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