Sorry, you’re only technically correct; but not in the larger scheme.
Although mostly involved in the bombing business, the A-4 pilots considered themselves fighter pilots, just as Air Force F-4 pilots and F-105 pilots were fighter pilots—although they also were primarily used as “bombers” during the VietNam war.
If you think of fighter pilots as only those involved in the air-to-air combat business, you are in error....
Exactly.
Did A-4s have guns? Did they get involved in air to air combat? Just curious.
ditto
I've never heard anyone that was an attack aircraft pilot refer to themselves as a fighter pilot. When the A-7's were switching to F/A-18s, one of our sister squadrons in CAG-3 forbid the pilots from referring to themselves as fighter pilots. He wanted them focused on the attack mission and not going all Air Force on him.
Of course many attack aircraft had air-air capability, but that doesn't make them fighter aircraft. The USAF created enormous confusion by mislabeling many aircraft.