As wonderful as the Spads are, they are no A-10. I say that as a strong admirer of the A-1, but it's time has passed. I thought the Piper Enforcers (a P-51 with a turboprop, basically) would be nice, until I thought it through. Nope, there simply are no substitutes for the A-10s and Apaches.
At least, as things are now. I wish someone, somewhere, would come up with a replacement for the Warthogs, a modernized version, but the Air Farce is full of zoomies, not groundpounders.
