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To be fair CAS in a contest environment is supposed to be the F-35s job with the main goal of uncontesting said airspace so the rest of the airforce can be used more aggressively.

And cluster bombs are rather unpopular in the international community due to their unfortunate habit of not having all the submunitions actually go off when they hit the target area and thus effectively creating small minefields

And that was with it burdened by the most restrictive ROEs ever known to aerial combat, seriously if BVR combat had been routinely allowed I suspect the K/D ratio would have been closer to 10:1. The Phantom as it turns out was a great fleet interceptor for its time that turned up being good at a...

To be fair the A-10 wasn't really designed with anything larger than 23mm(aka the standard Warsaw pact mobile AA gun size) in mind

The problem with fitting something like Trophy is that no airplane will ever carry enough armor over enough of its surface area to protect itself from an explosion going off on its surface

basically build an A-10 with some stealth features, modern electronics, a crapload of EW/ECM systems, and you're good