A-6 was never designed to do what A-10s do. A-6 was a carrier based all-weather medium attack aircraft while A-10 was a close air support aircraft.Ok gents, thanks a lot. Yet it seems to me that A-6Es, for example, up to 1986 had done very little that can be considered as something totally different from what Hogs did. Another truth is that you both are right, naval tactical air had had another tasking for daily routine. Again, was that change in theatres and styles of warfare that Navy faced in 1991, lacking precise weapon and its platforms for land targets' pounding, as unpredictable as it seems now?