LJ,
Are you serious about Scorpion?
As it would be less survivable than an A-10 and would have to stay at home if we had a conflict with say Russia. So what use is it?
I imagine the best we could do along that road would be for a NATO wide buy of NG Gripens. Surely the already cheap price would fall quite dramatically and you get a very useful piece of machinery that would be at home in low or high intensity conflicts.
TR