That bothered me too. The first time I flew the Stonehenge mission, I completed it only to be hopelessly outflown by the Yellow Flankers afterwards. I tried like 4 times and said screw it, I'm using a fighter.
the best "striker"(strike fighter) to use with balance in stonehenge are the following.
-F-15E
-F-2A
-F-22
All 3 will give you the manueverability needed to take on yellows after destroying stonehenge, not to mention their ASM(air to surface missles) are effective. I was able to take out yellow 4 a minute after she showed up in my F-2A. ANd whata beautiful sight it was...........pull up, roll 180 pull down, 180 again, 45 degree bank right, pull up slightly at low speed, 2 missle shot
BAM. Yellow 4 got OWNED
I did. I just said fighter as in "I'm not using no A-10 for this mission".