AFTERMATH OF WAR : Starring the Stealth

The Patriot missile is popularly considered the star of the Gulf War. But in the view of Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner, the war’s top Air Force general, the real star was the F-117A, left, known as the Stealth. Horner said he was among the initial doubters of the plane, whose performance in the 1989 Panama invasion was criticized. But “it EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS, how efficient it really was,” he said.