Your link is the first that really identified the actual problem. The Air Force wants to put eight bombs of these 250 lb bombs in the bay. Right now they can only fit four. That is a lot of extra rack hardware and separation issues to deal with. That explains a lot.
That would be a nice CAS load out with a triple guidance weapon. If life was bad enough you could even drop through weather with a ground FAC.
38 posted on 03/15/2015 11:15:15 AM PDT by USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
But the one thing it cannot do is laser designate its own target. It missed early 90s tech.
43 posted on 03/15/2015 11:24:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)