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Not really, back in Desert Storm, the A-10 got its ass whooped by the Iraqis. Perhaps an F-16 is more likely to go down when hit, but as we can see, fewer F-16s were actually hit than A-10s. 20 A-10s hit, vs 7 F-16s hit. Let me break it down for you: AAA hits (D/L): A-10 (11), F-16 (1) SAM...

You forget that all that specialization also meant that the sortie rate was just -in comparison to multi-role designs- not that great. Especially due to the fact that they tended to practically nothing in common other than hardpoints, integrated armaments, and maybe the engines (and even then...