The F-35 has a very awesome gun.
The current software on the F-35 doesn't support a gun.
It's supposed to be deployed with the next software but they're having problems with it.
When the door that hides the gun to keep the F-35 stealthy opens, it jerks the plane making it miss.
The gun only has 220 rounds and just a few seconds of firing time. And not all models even get that.
The F35 has a pod with a gun
“The F-35 has a very awesome gun.”
With a few seconds of ammo. Good luck with that.
The F-35A has a very awesome internally-mounted gun and 182 very awesome rounds to shoot through it.
The F-35B and F-35C have no internal gun, but they do have an awesome optional externally carried stealthy gun pod carrying a staggering 220 rounds.
At a fire rate of 3,000 rpm, that's just 3.64 seconds of trigger time for the F-35A, and 4.4 seconds for the F-35B and F-35C, when they decide to take the weight penalty of fitting the gun pod for a particular mission.
But then, the software needed to shoot the gun won't be ready until 2019 at the earliest. So, the F-35's awesome gun is just awesome ballast for now.
“The F-35 has a very awesome gun.”
With a fraction of the needed ammo load to be useful.
with very limited ammo.