1999 F-117A shootdown

[3][4] The Army of Yugoslavia unit was equipped with a Yugoslav version of the Soviet Isayev S-125 "Neva" missile system (NATO reporting name, SA-3 "Goa").According to Lieutenant Colonel Đorđe Aničić, who was identified in 2009 as the soldier who fired the missiles, they detected the F-117 at a range of about 23 km (14 mi) and operated their equipment for no more than 17 seconds to avoid being locked on to by NATO anti-air suppression.[citation needed] The F-117, callsign "Vega-31", was being flown by Lt. Col. Darrell Patrick "Dale" Zelko (born 30 November 1963),[3][6] an Operation Desert Storm veteran.[7] Zelko landed around a mile/kilometre from his aircraft's crash site, and an intensive search of the area was carried out by the Yugoslav soldiers, policemen, and local villagers.[11] Photographs show that the aircraft struck the ground at low speed in an inverted position, and that the airframe remained relatively intact.[20] A small rubber part of the plane was shown as "a souvenir" to Western journalists by Serbian warlord Arkan during the NATO air campaign.

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