Just a small reminder, folks: you are all talking about cannon and very little about the other "stuff": both can carry a huge bomb/missile load; by the time they actually use the cannon, there won't be much left anyway...
Both have massive armour, structural reinforcement and redundancy. The A-10s toughness is legendary, but I recently saw (here, I think?) a pick of an SU-25 that got hit close to an engine exahust, loosing a huge chunk of that area... and it still managed to return home.
The A-10 has far better all-around vision, but this can be argued to have come at the cost of putting the pilot's back out of the titanium "tub"...
But the A-10s main winning point his it's electronics: currently, the A-10 wins hands down any in-service version of the SU-25 (altough there are some prototypes that...); this not only allows the A-10 to fly by night with no problems, but also allows it to carry a vast array of guided munitions;
Both have massive armour, structural reinforcement and redundancy. The A-10s toughness is legendary, but I recently saw (here, I think?) a pick of an SU-25 that got hit close to an engine exahust, loosing a huge chunk of that area... and it still managed to return home.
The A-10 has far better all-around vision, but this can be argued to have come at the cost of putting the pilot's back out of the titanium "tub"...
But the A-10s main winning point his it's electronics: currently, the A-10 wins hands down any in-service version of the SU-25 (altough there are some prototypes that...); this not only allows the A-10 to fly by night with no problems, but also allows it to carry a vast array of guided munitions;
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