It was an August day in 1979, and a division
from the U.S. Marines attempted to eliminate
the new aircraft owned by Skunk Works. Soldiers
in the Marine were equipped with the
most modern radars the United States could
provide in combat, in addition armed with
Hawk ground-to-air missiles. The Americans
claimed that the radar was of such good quality
that it could discover a Hawk in air, situated
40-50 kilometres away in length. The target of
the U.S. Marines was an experimental aircraft
operating under the code name Have Blue. This
was a prototype of an aircraft with the means
of demonstrating and until then unknown and
intensely secretive technology; stealth.
Lockheed had provided their top secret research
department, Advanced Development
Projects, with the nickname Skunk Works.
Their most important customers were the CIA
and the U.S. Air Force. The mission given to
Skunk Works, was producing an aircraft and a
station of armour with such a high level of advance
that the Soviet Union would be unable to
terminate or stop the enemy`s attack. For that
reason, most aircrafts were hidden away under
very high levels of secrecy. If the Soviet Union
were not provided with the knowledge of these
aircrafts existence before there existed an operational
reason for it, this leading to them not
being able to come up with a return in time to
have any chance in being superior in combat.