It’s a single mission jet. And we are good at it. .but when you have accountant weenies running the DoD and infecting congress, you retire the single-mission jet and throw every dime at the multi-mission jet. . .like the JSF. . .even though it can’t do the CAS mission nearly as well as an A-10.
The Marines would love to have them.
They sure liked our A-4s in nam.
VMA-223 Mag 12, Chu Lai RVN.
Viet Nam, we were winning when I left.
I have a Swiss Army knife with blades, screwdrivers, scissors, bottle opener, can opener, wire stripper, toothpick, and tweezers...
But, excepting the knife part, it doesn’t do ANY of those jobs as well as the tool dedicated to each specific purpose.