I didn't call it a "nighthawk" because I grew up with this thing:

That thing caused such a sensation there were congressional hearings about a fucking plastic model. Based on the success Testor's came out with a Soviet version, which was supposed to be slower, shittier, and primarily just a bomber:

So one fine friday, the day we were all piling onto the school bus to go to music camp, this bullshit shows up:

It was a horrific letdown. It's slower, shittier and basically just a bomber. The brilliant stealth future we were promised was actually our parodic Soviet past. A couple years later they were used in anger for the first time in Panama and succeeded in hitting exactly fuckall. Then Desert Shield happened and that was such a jingoistic clusterfuck that watching dead iraqi kids on FLIR would make a pacifist out of anyone. Then a few more years pass and fuckin' back-asswards Serbians using weapons we were assured were obsolete plucked one out of the sky.

I grew up with this:

Yours is a Mitchell Gant world and Ben Rich gives you the "hopeless diamond". Fuckin' "nighthawk." please.