Probably much more survivable with today’s countermeasure systems and cameras. One of the factors making lighter aircraft more viable is the return of the 250 lb class bomb. It is also one of the errant ways people criticize the F-35, because it will be some years before those weapons can be carried internally. The design of the F-35 weapons bay didn’t include those weapons because they weren’t in development yet.
If you’re talking about Boeing’s GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, I know one of the project engineers...I’ll be sure to ask him, if he can talk about it...Did not know about the F-35 not being capable of carry internally...
And it may have sounded like I’m the former pilot...I am not and should have worded that better...Former USAF pilot was father of a good friend, and used to tell us stories of his KC-135, O-1 and OV-10 days...Great guy, and now gone to his reward...