In the first Gulf War, F-111s destroyed a LOT of tanks.
Modern targeting pods make tank killing from 35,000’ possible.
That is not to say we’ll never again need someone down low doing the job, but Obama’s goal is to permanently cripple and destroy as much of the US military as he can in his remaining time in office.
The USAF has been trying to kill the A-10 since its introduction into service. They don’t low and slow. Fighter Mafia and all that. I don’t pin this so much on Obama as the Air Farce Brass. If it had been purely up to the USAF the B-52 would have been retired in the 1970s.
The USAF has been a Space and then Air Force for over a decade now. They see mud-moving somewhat beneath them in the classic sense of the A-10.