The 500lb Paveway can be carried internally, if that’s what you meant.

Sort of, by racked i mean two bombs on the same pylon.

What I ment was 1000 LB JDAMS AND 2000 LB JDAMS

part of the F-35 buy for the UK.

wouldn’t it cost the MoD a lot more money to buy the extra JDAM kits when they already have paveway ?

What’s the point of arming a stealth fighter with a weapon that can’t be carried internally? .

Situation: youre on a CAS mission over afighanistan and youre up against a harnend compound, i dont particulary think that “stealth” will be a priority.

I have just rembered something spudman said earlier about UAI so maybe they might intergrate the dumb 505kg bombs, you never know.And because there are less fins on the dumb bombs they could probably rack them on the external pylons!
Im just saying imagine two 1000 lb bombs on a rack on the center wing pylon and the same with the inner wing pylon and then two could theoretically be fitted in one of the bays; and the same with the other side of the aircraft, it could give it an overall of twelve 1000 lb dumb bombs. Now even i know thats an impressive load machable to the f-15 strike eagles heaviest load!Obviously this loadout would be used for bombing of a city and not CAS but o’well.

small dumb bombs distributed across it would do.

UK dumb bombs are not going to be intergrated on the F-35C so what are they going to use instead?

Do any of you think that the RAF is subsituting the Paveway III for the Paveway IV on the F-35C, because if so what are they going to use if they are facing a very large group of enemies or their up against really hardend targets.

I think that the UK is happy with its current storm shadow capabilities.