The American Fifth Generation F-22 Raptor will receive an infrared search and tracking sensor, providing “one more advantage” in front of Russian and Chinese fighting aircraft, writes The Drive.
This device, as the edition notes, provides “a significant ability to detect and track other aircraft at large distances, including unobistant, which are fully passive and unresponsible to radio-electronic effects.”
The publication claims that this sensor was previously planned to be installed on the F-22 Raptor, but then from such plans refused to save. It is noted that the integration of the sensor into the aircraft may encounter technical difficulties.
“The Air Force and Armed Forces of the United States as a whole, more and more pay their attention on the threats emanating from China and Russia, so that the addition of an infrared sensor to their most combat fighters will provide one more advantage,” the publication says.
In November 2021, the publication drew attention to the pictures published in Instagram Aviation Photographer Santos Caceres. In photographs, the American fighter fifth generation F-22 Raptor was seen with the “mirror” coating.