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No one told the Iranians that the F-35 is invisible
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I think most people know Stealth to mean invisible to Radar, not to the human eye. The F35 is obviously going to be seeable once you have human eyes on it. The idea is targeting systems and long range equipment would not pick it up. But Iran has proved that to be false it seems.
No, the engineers knew it would be visible like anything else, because they're not completely stupid. A lot of stuff still relies on radar, though, and other frequencies and tools can have limitations, like in range or "does-it-work-in-rain". Consider how many F-35s made it over Iran safe and sound.
Presumably they're as sneaky as possible in other ways as well, although at some point it's still a jet plane.
I think you missed the comment I replied to
Yeah, sorry, that's wasn't very clear. I think I was in too many parallel discussions about this at once.
What I mean is just that the designers absolutely did know other sensors could and would be used for targeting. It's jut a question of how much that lowers survivability, exactly. The amount of traffic over Iran indicates it's still good, because radar is still the main game in town.
Yeah, stealth is relative until we get StarTrek cloaking devices :)