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Great work, Mike. Once the Aeronautical Museum in Belgrade eventually finishes with its renovations I hope to make a pilgrimage to see the remnants of that downed F-117.

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Even in 2025, I reckon that America’s “stealth” aircraft like the B-2 and F-35 are by far the marquee assets in the crown of imperial soft power projection-even eclipsing their mighty aircraft carriers-and thus the proven loss of even one of these near-mystical wunderwaffens would be utterly catastrophic to their ability to intimidate rival powers.

The necessary corollary of this is that American military would do literally anything to preserve this mystique, and thus would be extremely hesitant to put them in even the slightest risk (such as the recent “B-2 strike” in Iran).

The day America’s power to project military strength dies isn’t the first supercarrier smacked by an Iranian BM, but when an F-35 meets a PL-15 for the whole world to see on PressTV or Global Times.

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