……The other was that the aircraft was unable to search for threats in the environment around it, unlike the B2 bomber. This made it particularly easy to shoot down because it couldn’t avoid threats as easily, and the threat space was growing. (As determined in a radar saturated airspace in Serbia using a very specific technique...
Our Wing Commander during Desert Shield / Strop refused to let HQ mission planners dictate our mission profiles and tactics. He actually stood the wing down until it changed. He didn’t make one star after the war because of it. Great commander.
In Serbia they threw away all the lessons learned from the gulf war and let higher HQ (lackies not briefed into the program) dictate mission profiles. The result was the aircraft shot down.
I hear a lot of people not in the program stating facts. I don’t think many details have been declassified so don’t believe much of what you hear.