Originally Posted by
Truckkie
We are stuck with a cold war era, expensive legacy fighter which will be pressed into the Ground Attack role (does it have a gun yet?
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It has always had a gun. To be the mass and balance of a gun, with the electric characteristics of a gun, and fit in the place of a gun, you can only fit a gun. Ballast was never an option. Very clever this fly-by-wire stuff.
...It is Ammunition for that gun that we need.....