Which is another way of saying, this would spend munitions load on the forlorn hope of maybe backshooting a Mainstay out of pure luck and happenstance, instead

Which is another way of saying, this would spend munitions load on the forlorn hope of maybe backshooting a Mainstay out of pure luck and happenstance, instead of spending that mass and volume on ordnance that actually made sense for the mission. Which is another way of saying, this is something some engineers at Lockheed blue-skyed around a table one day, and the PMO liked it enough to throw it into a stack of viewgraphs as "planned future capability", thus promising absolutely nothing, in case it might help sell the aircraft.