Dylan Smith wrote:

The irony of the situation is the warbird of tomorrow's airshows will
be mostly ex-Soviet or British, with very little US hardware. It'll look
almost like the Soviets won the cold war to the airshow atendee of the
future.


I think the real irony is that these airplanes are still capable of such
a serious threat that they have to be trashed. That speaks volumes
about retired hardware. G