Malcolm Nance, a former U.S. intelligence officer and former senior U.S. Navy officer: Shooting down an F-15 at high altitude is bad news, but this A-10 Warthog is a sign of worse. It is the toughest low-altitude attack aircraft we have.
If an Iranian shoulder-launched missile hit this aircraft, then our conventional helicopters and Marine tiltrotor helicopters would be at very high risk if we were to attack the islands in the Strait of Hormuz.
