IR stealth is very much a part of the F-35 and other 5th gen fighters but like radar stealth it doesn’t make the plane invisible. It just decreases the detection range and makes other countermeasures more effective.
A big obstacle for modern stealth aircraft is that if they get within imaging range of a an electro-optical targeting system, there’s not much they can really do other than using terrain masking as far as I’m aware.
IR stealth is very much a part of the F-35 and other 5th gen fighters but like radar stealth it doesn’t make the plane invisible. It just decreases the detection range and makes other countermeasures more effective.
A big obstacle for modern stealth aircraft is that if they get within imaging range of a an electro-optical targeting system, there’s not much they can really do other than using terrain masking as far as I’m aware.