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I wish they went into more detail as to how they did that.

Well, you should expect practical information on beating stealth to be about as easy to come by as practical information on building nuclear weapons. That said, the wikipedia entry for Nighthawk has a little more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-117_Nighthawk#Combat_losses

    According to NATO Commander Wesley Clark and other NATO 
    generals, Yugoslav air defenses detected F-117s by 
    operating their radars on unusually long wavelengths, 
    making the aircraft visible to radar for brief periods. 
    It is also possible that the aircraft was visible due to 
    a disruption of its radar signature caused by open bomb-
    bay doors. This was the justification given by Colonel 
    Dani in a 2007 interview.
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology#Radar_stealt... has information about stealth technology counters in general, the sort of thing you might find in a radar engineering handbook.


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