Stendec5 - NutLoose - I suppose all that is why the US went to low-vis paint for the USAF, USN, & USMC tactical combat aircraft in 1982 then?
The way it was explained to us then (I was in FLIR school at NSA Whidbey Island, WA at the time) was that the new paint showed up less in IR as well as visible light (remember those Soviet IRST units in their fighters) - and that it incorporated RAM ingredients to boot.
How much of that was true as opposed to the official claims I don't know, but I do know from personal observations that you could see the aircraft in the old schemes far more clearly in the A-6E's FLIR than you could those in the new paint.