'77, you're playing with fire taking on the best Harrier pilot on the planet, JF !
However, not having tried it as you know John, I'd have thought there was a case for a gun ( I only saw the disastrous early trials of the 25mm, it's both heartening & sad to read it finally cut the mustard but was still binned ) - surely you can't take out a bad guy in a jeep or standing alone with a Maverick, maybe not even a Paveway - expensive OTT if witty solutions, and rockets require flying low into RPG range, + have to be less accurate ?
DZ