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That is a valid comparison.

I wasn't saying the F-35 was a shit plane by making the comparison to the Thunder chief (infact a lot of pilots who flew it said they wouldn't have wanted to fly anything else).

There is a really good documentary on Amazon prime called THUD pilots that goes into this, it is definitely worth a watch if you like military aviation.

If you want to read a fun fictional book of exactly this playing out, I recommend Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.

I’d like to add Bury Us Upside Down by Don Shepperd and Rick Newman

As well as Tiger Force by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

Go read https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

Really good book

I would recommend--

Fiction:

• Fields of Fire by James Webb
  
• My Dying Breath by Ben Reed
  
• Charlie Mike by Leonard B. Scott
  
• The Last Run by Leonard. B Scott (sequel to Charlie Mike)
  
• The Hill also also by Scott
  
  Non-fiction:
  
  
• The Boys of '67 by Andrew Wiest
  
• Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden
  

Also, check out Stealth Fighter I read it in a day, couldn't put it down.

You should watch the longest day It's an old movie but it will answer your question. Also you can read Overlord it's a big book that covers a lot of what happen prior, during and after D-Day

I read a book called Viper Pilotby a retired wild weasel pilot. They have the latest in countermeasures and are all extremely well trained, he says most of the guys have their masters degree on top of the Air Force level of special forces intensity training. When those guys hear missile lock they react like someone has a gun to their head- they immediately shit pants and evade, evade, evade. Drop everything and pilot like your mother’s life depends on it. It’s terrifying.

It's more or less common knowledge in US Marine Aviation nowadays, but you'll find no better source on the history of the V-22 program than the book, The Dream Machine.

If you would prefer not to get that far into the weeds of it, the article, "Finally, The Osprey" from 2009 discusses it briefly.

Unfortunately, most of the links for references on the V-22's Wikipedia page are no longer available.

You already made an idiot out of yourself, now, wind your neck in and read this

https://www.amazon.com/Debrief-Complete-History-Aerial-Engagements/dp/0764327852/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488002409&sr=1-1&keywords=debrief

No problem. There is a great book on the subject of being a journalist or just a civilian caught in a war zone https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Being-Killed-Zone/dp/1408816822

A study conducted by the RAF had fired 140 rockets (18 sorties) against a stationary Panther painted in white. The average pilot in trials, fired all eight rockets in a savlo and had roughly a 4% percent chance (0,5 % per rocket) of hitting the target; only 3 hits were scored.

However, air-to-ground rockets from 1943-45 were generally very difficult to place accurately and barely adequate for use against precision targets. On operations, target selection and chance of hitting became even more difficult with targets well camouflaged and supported by anti-aircraft fire. It clearly demanded cold blood and considerable skill, to score a hit in the heat of a battle.

Scene: The Royal Air Force Collection - Typhoon At War

Source: Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe 1943-45

I read a book about the naval battles around Guadalcanal during WWII. Survivors of sinking ships would sometimes be killed by the shock of unsafed depth charges exploding as the ship, to which the charges were still attached, sank beneath their detonation depth. The shockwave would go up their butthole (no, really) and rupture Important Things™.

Neptune's Inferno is a must-read book for anyone interested in naval combat.

And one of T.E. Lawrence's regrets as well. He had argued that Gallipoli was a destined failure -- instead suggesting Alexandretta.

Intelligence indicated that Alexandretta locals and military were sympathetic to Entente (later shown that they were), meaning the beachhead could be made easily.

Unfortunately for the soldiers, the Alexandretta plan was scrapped due to diplomatic pressures from France. See Alexandretta is right near Syria, a region in which the French had staked a claim earlier in the War (see Sykes-Picot Agreement).

When pressured to land in Syria, the French insisted that any invading force be, by majority, French. However, the French could not spare the troops to perform the invasion... thus Alexandretta was abandoned and Gallipoli was chosen (note how there's only 1 French unit in the GIF).

What's crazy is that the British Intelligence and T.E. Lawrence attempted to sell this plan THREE times... and the French shot it down every time. It is insane to think how the tide of the war would have turned if the Triple Entente had invaded near Alexandretta. It's possible that the invasion could have saved at least some of the Armenians being killed by the Ottoman's.

Source: Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson