Dominator,
To answer your questions -
1. How many bombs to the beach - enough when it mattered, and plenty for a small fighter. With an excellent radar and weapons systems (thanks to lower Hangar and his crew) it could also drop them with very good ballistic accuracy. Had it had the 540lb bomb sooner, it would have carried even more.
2. Ability to get high and fast to deploy its weapons - it could climb faster than most anything else and was fast enough (paired with SKW) to do the job. In any event, when it was retired, it was still able to give most any other fighter in the West a good go. Its JTIDS integration package (ditched when the jet was canned) would have given it another massive boost in combat effectiveness. Shame it didn't get the chance to use it.
Anyway, those are the answers I have. You've clearly got others. Hey, let's differ.
But calling the SHAR an 'Air Show aircraft' - beg to differ. It actually fought a shooting war against enemy aircraft in the air. And won.
Best wishes as ever to all those doing the job for real,
Engines