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The Lockheed F-117A was developed in response to an Air Force request
for an aircraft capable of attacking high value targets without being detected
by enemy radar. By the 1970s, new materials and techniques allowed engineers
to design an aircraft with radar-evading or "stealth" qualities. The result
was the F-117A, the world's first operational stealth aircraft. The first
F-117A flew on June 18, 1981, and the first F-117A unit, the 4450th Tactical
Group, achieved initial operating capability in October 1983. The F-117A
first saw combat during Operation Just Cause on Dec. 19, 1989, when two
F-117As from the 37th TFW attacked military targets in Panama.
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The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the
United States. The United States military was first formed by the second Continental
Congress to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary
War.
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