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Place of Birth: Kovin, Vojvodina, Serbia
About Zoltán Dani
- Zoltán Dani (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ????, Hungarian: Dani Zoltán; 23 July 1956) is a former officer of the Yugoslav army and former commander of the 3rd battery of the 250th Missile Brigade, which shot down a NATO F-117 Nighthawk near the village of Budanovci on 27 March 1999, during the Kosovo War.
- The hit was achieved with a SA-3 Goa SAM system.
- He was initially unknown to the public and aliased with the name Gvozden Ðukic.
- However, upon retiring from the military, he revealed his identity. Dani claimed that his battery also shot down a NATO F-16.
- Although NATO initially claimed the loss was due to "mechanical failure"; the crashed F-16's pilot recounted that his aircraft was hit by a SAM.Since retiring from military service, Dani has been working as a baker in his native village Skorenovac.
- He is of Hungarian and Romanian ancestry; his paternal family are Székelys of Bukovina, like the majority of inhabitants of the village, settling Vojvodina in the late 19th century, while his mother was of Banat Romanian ancestry.
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