The F-35b is not what the Marines need. It’s a platform basically designed and optimized for everything -except- CAS.
This will cause it to be peeled away by a theater commander for deep missions, SEAD, and numerous other duties than have nothing to do with CAS. It’s gun exhausts it’s entire 180 round ammo load in 3 seconds.
Bottom line, the 35B wasn’t meant to help grunts, it was designedto help the USA and Lockheed on the unit price. That’s it.
Grunts
Wow! It carries that many round? A whole 180 bullets? Goodness me! It just sounds like brutal overkill. /s
Somebodies shouid be tried for treason to sent this kind of crap to our troops to do battle. It is a joke but a very sad one.
More like it was designed to help Lockheed make money.