[mullen]

> Most estimates that the majority of A-10's would have been destroyed within 72 hours of the Warsaw Pact rolling across the German border.

But that is in the design of the A-10. The A-10 was not made for anything other fighting in Europe for the first 72 hours of the Soviets invading Western Europe. If the Russian speartip was blunted and there was some A-10's left over, then the A-10 would have been considered a success.