"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123088771

Doesn't seem like they have been around long enough to retire them.

20+ years of service for the first iteration of such a breakthrough
technology is a pretty good run IMO. Make no mistake--the F-117 is a success
story given the amount of untold $trillions spent on technologies that never
made it to a deployable stage.

I think we'll see even shorter lifespans for some of our newer weapons
systems as advancements in research gets steeper and steeper.

Marco