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There was (bad) CGI of an X-35B in that movie.

Real F-35Bs don't have an internal gun, and if they did, the guns wouldn't fire from the intakes, and if the aircraft took a large chunk of concrete directly into the LiftFan it wouldn't shudder and slowly fall out of the sky, it would be a catastrophic and near instantaneous loss of aircraft and likely aircrew life.

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You can see the same error in The Avengers: F-35B hovering and firing guns from the intakes.

I think it's a bad job of converting from a AV-8, which does have internal guns, located under each intake.

> There was (bad) CGI of an X-35B in that movie.

Models (both miniature and full size) were used.

Ah, my mistake. Shame to put that much effort into putting something on film and have it look so awful that you think it must be CGI

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