With it's Electro Optical Targeting System (EOTS,) derrived from the Sniper pod, it can plink tanks or jihadis with Small Diameter Bombs more effectively from a safer altitude than the A-10 can with its 30mm of goodness.
How much testing have they done with that on the F-35? One of the best things about the A-10 was it could fly low and slow.
How true. We’re just to the point where any size bomb can be a smart bomb. Used to be the various bomb guidance packages were so expensive that putting one on a bomb weighing below 750 lbs was out of the question. Now they’re common and more accurate.