“The F-16 is NOT a tank killer and Russian has deployed TANKS along that line/”
The F-16 can kill tanks, it is just not near as well suited to the task as the A-10 is unmatched in that role.
“The F-15 and F-14 is much better that the F-16.”
Yes, they are and were respectively superior to the F-16 as air superiority fighters with one exception. The F-16 was built in the thousands while the F-15 was built in the hundreds. The hundreds of F-15A aircraft are now at the end of the service lives and have been retired along with many other models of the F-15 and F-16. The lower cost and greater numerical superiority of the F-16 has maintained a 4:1 availability advantage for the F-16. The F-14, as wonderful an aircraft as it was, was retired from the U.S. Navy long ago.
“The F-22 is much better than the F-16”
The F-22 is inferior to the F-16 with respect to cost, reliability, and a vastly greater numerical superiority for the F-16. We hardly have enough F-22 Raptors to maintain more than a few squadrons of them in combat operations at any one time.
“They don’t call the F-16 a LAWN DART for nothing!”
At least they have a fine combat record and are available in large numbers so there is something around in the first place capable of becoming a lawn dart. You cannot bore a hole in the ground, attack a ground target, or shootdown and enemy fighter-bomber with an aircraft sitting in tatters in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan or was never built in the first place.
“26+ years of Air Traffic Control in the USAF has taught me the A-10 Warthog is an outstanding aircraft!”
I was on the receiving end of the A-10 attacks in a bunker on the target range during my service in the USAF, so I can certainly testify to the fact the A-10 is the best ground attack aircraft ever built and deployed in combat.