Amen to that. Some never seem to grasp that concept.
The strength of the A-10 is it ability to stick around to perform many attacks, employing PGMs, and the GUN. A-10's can attack and attack and attack. . .not just ‘one pass haul a$$”
“...not just one pass haul a$$”........
Those days are pretty much over for all aircraft. Back in the old days when you had to drop a string of 6 or more Mk82’s in the hope of taking out a single tank (assuming you could even find the thing from a low altitude ingress to a pop to acquire while under fire from everyone on the ground with access to a trigger). Now, “tank plinking” is done with one or two LGBs at a time, dropped from an altitude that allows you to maintain almost constant situational awareness of friendless and the target, and doesn’t burn as much fuel, increasing loiter time significantly. And it allows 2-4 aircraft to coordinate attacks on the target at the same time using one forward air controller. There are very few CAS scenarios where a flight of four F-16’s or F-18’s don’t have enough ordnance to resolve the problem. And that includes a couple strafe passes per aircraft, with results that aren’t nearly as impressive as those provided by an A-10 strafe pass, but still manage to get a point across.