[Yo-Yo]

The parallels between the Ju-87 and the A-10 contiue deeper. The Ju-87 was outstanding in the permissive airspace of the Spanish Civil War and the invasion of Poland, but losses to Allied fighters were so great that it had no effect against the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Likewise, the A-10 is surpurb in Iraq and Afghanistan, but wasn’t goung to fare well in a Soviet full scale invasion of Europe or in a neer-peer future conflict.

[pierrem15]

Not so sure about that: it's an incredibly tough aircraft and is built to be able to be raked by 12.7mm (.50 cal) ammunition and still fly.

Some A10's in Iraq took incredible damage from ground fire and still flew.