Zoltán Dani

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caption=Zoltán Dani
allegiance= SFR Yugoslvia, FR Yugoslavia
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rank=Colonel
commands=3rd battery of the 250th Missile Brigade
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battles=Kosovo War
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Zoltán Dani (Serbian Cyrillic: Золтан Дани) is a former colonel of the Yugoslav Army and former commander of the 3rd battery of the 250th Missile Brigade, which shot down an F-117 Nighthawk near the village of Buđanovci on March 27, 1999, during the Kosovo War. The hit was achieved with modified SA-3 Goa missiles.

Dani claimed that his battery also shot down an F-16 [http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2006/07/29/srpski/K06072801.shtml Glas javnosti: How officer became successful baker] ] which according to NATO was lost due to "mechanical failure". 

Since retiring from military service, Dani has been working as a baker in his native village Skorenovac. He is an ethnic Hungarian.

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* [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x.htm  Serb discusses 1999 downing of stealth on USATODAY]
* [http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20051121.aspx How to Take Down an F-117]
* [http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=15794 When low-tech beat stealth on Al Jazeera]
* [http://dailylark.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-was-f-117-shot-down-part-2.html Who shot down F-117 ?]
* [http://dictionaryofwar.org/concepts/Safe_Distance Safe distance] , found footage from the cockpit of the F117 @ kuda.org's Dictionary of war