@ Robert Sneddon
The A-10 Warthog has an excellent reputation among all people who have either flown it, or been saved by people who flew it.
The adjectives generally used to describe it are "awesome", "deadly" and "badass".
Excuse me if I am not impressed by the F-35's mission ; it has yet to prove that it can indeed fulfill that mission. The Warthog has fulfilled its mission, which was to get in close and rain hell upon the enemy while surviving multiple hits. This page details the fact that in Desert Storm a group of 136 Warthogs flew 8077 sorties and only suffered the loss of 6 aircraft.
It seems to me that, even in range of AA weapons, heavy machine guns and light rapid fire cannon, that plane did a damn good job.
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