Per my analysis the F4U outperforms the A10 in almost every important metric. A fancy cockpit does not make the A10 better and I would say the Corsair would outperform the A10 in a dogfight. There also cost, which adjust for inflation is much, much lower for the Corsair. Pilots can be trained quicker. I know the popular thing is to say the 30mm chain gun came first and the airplane second, which sounds good on paper, but means the aircraft is shit. Also, I rated max ceiling as neutral because who cares about max ceiling for an attack aircraft?
Please contact your congressional representatives and let them know that the F4U corsair should replace the A10 as a ground attack aircraft. Thank you.
you forgot that in NATO the more expensive the better (and the worst is I’m half joking: in France for example there is a high refusal from arms factories to build low cost drones like the ones used in Ukraine because they are not expensive enough and so you can’t build only a few of them and makes big money with that…).
So you should makes an gold coat for the F4U if you want it to replace the A10 :P.