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Love when journalists call anything with a jet engine and wings a "fighter jet"
What would be your preferred terminology?
“Close air support aircraft” is a bit awkward.
For players of strategy games, CAS suffices. No idea if militaries do it differently. Saying you're going to an automatic teller machine would be awkward to say as well.
Journalism is only rarely directed at strategy game players though. CAS is not a common abbreviation for the public like ATM is.