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AC 130U is an Air Force CAS with a 105mm howitzer and Gatling Guns.

The F35A is also supposed to be able to do CAS missions, especially with drones that can deliver fuel to the uncontested battlefield.

> AC 130U is an Air Force CAS with a 105mm howitzer and Gatling Guns.

AC130J is losing the gatlings and the armor.

> The F35A is also supposed to be able to do CAS missions

Operative word: supposed.

And nobody will send that expensive an airframe at the ranges and a10 operates at.

> And nobody will send that expensive an airframe at the ranges and a10 operates at.

Then why is there a Gatling gun on the F35A?

There's a Gatling gun on the F35A. There's a plane on the Gatling gun on the A10. :)