1.   A new, all-but-invisible stealth fighter was no exception.

2.   At the same time, Defense Secretary William J. Perry said the stealth fighters had been dispatched to the region from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

3.   In seconds these feathered stealth fighters had separated and stationed themselves in low hemlock branches, with me in the middle.

4.   It looked like no other ship, the angles of its superstructure sides similar to those of the stealth fighter and the stealth bomber.

5.   It wants to put stealth fighters on carriers and it seeks to put theater missile-defense systems at sea as a way to justify largely superfluous Aegis cruisers.

6.   It would, in fact, be the first tactical stealth fighter.

7.   Stealth fighters, which served with distinction in the Gulf War, had crashed before because of pilot error or mechanical problems, but never in combat.

8.   Stealth fighters, which served with distinction in the Gulf War, have crashed before because of pilot error or mechanical problems, but never in combat.

9.   The JSF program, however, represents far more than just the next-generation stealth strike fighter, whatever the final number built.

10.   The loss of an American stealth fighter in Yugoslavia on Saturday did not represent a failure of its radar-evading technology, experts said Wednesday.