Word.. meaning no disrespect to an airframe designed around a cannon shooting depleted uranium shells the size of a red bull can , built with a titanium bathtub for the pilot to ride in and a back up for every back up system in the thing.
What I mean is that if the A-10 needs to go air-to-air, someone has already messed up badly.
As for slow and pokey, dont the pilots joke it is the only aricraft that takes bird strikes from the rear?