The F-22 as a strike aircraft.

Firstly this is not a Raptor bashing thread, I think we all recognise that the Raptor is the omnipotent A2A platform of its generation- hell its in a generation of its own on that front.

However what about as a strike aircraft? With the exception of its ECM gear and stealth it looks like the weakest strike bird in production today.

First of all, targeting. Aircraft now coming on the scene all seem to have some sort of optical targeting equipment,

F-35- EOTS
Mig-35- OLS-35
Both the upcoming Su-35 and the Su-34 have built in optical targeting systems.
Those aircraft without them have pod mounted systems such as TIALD, Sniper XL, and Litening. (pretty much every type of combat aircraft I can think of has been fitted or will be fitted with such a system. Even the F-117 that the F-22 is supposedly replacing had both a FLIR a DIR and a built in laser designator.
The raptor lacks any of this.

Then there are the weapons. The Raptors AAM loadout is very impressive by western standards- 6 AMRAAM’S and 4 AIM-9X, all carried internally.
Bu in the A2G role things look a lot less impressive. The loadout is currently limited to just 2 1000lb JDAM’s with the future possibility of eight SDB’s in place of the AAM’s. The raptor has no stand-off weapons such as JASSM or Storm Shadow, no anti-armour missiles such as Maverick or Brimstone no ARM’s such as HARM. All in all the loadout looks very limited.

All in all it looks like the Raptor’s A2G capability islimited to fixed targets of an already known location.
The fact that the internal bays are the limiting factor suggests that the JDAM’s and SDB’s were an after thought intended to convince anti-raptor congressmen that it was useful at A2G after all?

I am not suggesting that its stealth features and supercruise are not useful for hitting ground targets, just that its ability to target them and then the very limited nature of its A2G weapons selection make it less than suitable for the A2G role.

Thoughts/comments please?