It may be as ugly as sin, but it sure does the job it was designed to perform as well as possible. My daughters know full well and will tell you this baby is "One bad-ass tank killer!"
I know, thr A-10 is one "badass" machine. :D That gun is a BFG.
The A-10 is so ugly it hurts. But there are few things in the air more beautiful to a ground pounder in need of some help.
It's design makes it surprisingly quiet on approach---well, until that BFG starts burping. There is nothing that has better loiter time and survivability over a hot zone as that beautiful ugly beast. The payload it is capable of bringing to bear on a situation is enormous. For the kind of engagements our guys are involved in these days, we should have 10 times as many of these hell-breathing animals as are in the theater.