Points out the “problem” with assumptions about how easy it is to shoot down A-10’s above a battlefield “manually” by shoulder-fired missiles.
Can be done of course, but not easily.
From a submarine periscope, looking against the horizon, it is very, very easy to see ships with their current paint schemes. That needs to be changed - for merchants and for USN ships.
Ship paint schemes of past wars were for spoofing the speed estimates for torpedo solutions. Effective, too.
An A-10 is a lot bigger than an F-5, and it is reeeeaaallly slow.