February 25, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Having been reading an article debating the retirement of the A10 on AW, I got to thinking about these two aircraft.
We read lots about Su-25 losses but they are being put in harms way with less sophisticated weaponry more often. I wonder if the A10 was being flown in Ukraine (for example) instead of the Su-25, would it be suffering the same losses?
Assuming tactics and weapons are the same.
Here is a video of a damaged A10 which purports to show why it is so “amazing”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BecNTYPYbU
there may be better examples out there or indeed Su-25 examples too.
This is not intended as a competition by the way.