Hack-Hook
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come on it never introduced as fighter it was always mentioned as a bomber and designed for CAS missions and some times trainer with some other possible variant anybody who said its fighter stated his own wishes . at first when it was shown with a single engine i had my doubt about it but now with two engine I believe it have enough power for carrying meaningful loadsWell it was posed as fighter. If u call it a bomber, its too small to carry something internally and range is too small as well. Its some technology demonstrator at most. Like Bird of Prey.
about the internal capacity well its not that smaller than f-35 and that airplane have six external hard point and two internal one.
also about the range can't those tick wings carry some extra fuel to give it enough range ? also don't forget it use some J85 variant engine that at cruise uses only about 400 liter/hours and is an efficient engine when there is no afterburner on it