Is the gun pod one burst or two?
LJ - Is the guided 70mm rocket a potentially useful CAS weapon? Accurate, supposedly easy to integrate with any pod/ball, lower CD than a Hellfire, cheaper and higher load-out.
F-35 for CAS is moot anyway until it is Rover-compatible, which does not happen before 2022-24 (Block 4A/B possible, but not confirmed). USMC will still have Hornets and Harriers for the job. And as has been pointed out here, the current EO setup (IR only) is not what people have become used to with dual-band pods or balls.
Scorpion's interesting - although in its present form it may be more like a bigger and faster OV-10 (NTTAWWT) than an A-10neo.