F117s offered to RAF?

[Dr Jekyll]

https://theaviationist.com/?p=40900

I've heard before that it was offered but only years after it was publicly revealed. It does seem odd that the US would offer to share the technology when it was still very secret.

[Dr Jekyll]

If the F117 hadn't been officially revealed previously, would it still have been used in GW1?

[Dr Jekyll]

NM62 said:

My bad then - guess I misunderstood the "Cool Story Bro" bit.

Never said they housed a squadron of classified stuff there just on 3 separate occasions I saw what were (at the time) secretive aircraft there in the early 80's.

Like what?

[Dr Jekyll]

768 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

It does seem odd that the US would offer to share the technology when it was still very secret.

The UK and US collaborate a lot. No great surprise, is it?

A lot, but there are limits.

[Dr Jekyll]

There was a proposal to use the F117 in the Libyan bombing of 1986 operating from Spain. But the decision was that it wasn't worth revealing them at that point.

So although not used in anger they were operational long before 1988, some say from 1983.