Reports indicate that two U.S. F-117 fighter jets, nicknamed Night Hawks, have taken off simultaneously from Nevada's desert, a development quickly linked to the Venezuela crisis. This advanced aircraft, long retired, may be flying again for military reasons.

The F-117 is a single-seat, twin-engine jet with no internal radar or air-to-air weapons, designed solely for precision ground attack missions. Its faceted design, made from aluminum and radar-absorbing materials, reduces its radar cross-section to less than 0.01 square meters—about one-hundredth that of a typical F-16.

The aircraft can carry two 900 kg laser-guided bombs (GBU-10 or GBU-27) or JDAM munitions in its internal weapon bays. It has a maximum speed of 0.92 Mach and an operational range of about 1,200 kilometers. The F-117 played a crucial role in NATO operations in Yugoslavia (1999) and the Iraq invasion (2003), completing over 1,600 sorties without losses.