But only if we crank up the production lines to near-WW II capacity and start rolling these newer and improved models of the A-10 and its supplementary armaments out in vast numbers.
Drones are good at patrolling, and the occasional launch of a pinprick hit, but squadrons of A-10s on dawn attack of identified enemy positions would do wonders in destroying the morale and supply lines of the nascent Islamic State.
Drones are snipers and scouts. The A-10 can be deployed as aerial cavalry. Like General George S. Patton said, “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”