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Would you look at the time, it’s once again leak o'clock over at the War Thunder forums. Yes, for real: Another user of the free-to-play war game leaked export-restricted military documents in a forum post on the game’s official community site, Niche Gamer has reported. This leak’s victim: The flight manual of the F-117 Nighthawk, a stealth aircraft manufactured by Lockheed. The Nighthawk was the first stealth attack aircraft designed and operated by the United States and is now retired from active service, only being used for training purposes. One of the 64 F-117 that were built was shot down over Serbia during the Kosovo War. The US had already claimed back then that the technology used in the planes was outdated and didn’t even bother to destroy the wreckage to prevent its adversaries from studying the material. The flight manual contains technical data like the position of sensors on the plane, specifications of the engines, and firing angles – things the user in question, who has been banned from the f

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