Talk:ATD-0/@comment-100.38.192.135-20150203114853/@comment-10993019-20150203194411

@TLMguy In the same sense that an armed X-29 or F-15S/MTD is a fictional aircraft, meaning combat-ready variants never existed (and more importantly were never going to exist) because the whole point of the aircraft was to test a specific technology (forward-swept wings, thrust vectoring, or in the case of the ATD-X, stealth technology.)

Also they probably just decided to mount weapons on the wings because it was easier than designing and modeling a weapons bay.