I was at the Singapore airshow yesterday. Lots of people were selling weapon systems and warfare related avionics. There was even a Serbian booth next to the US one – once enemies now together at a trade show. Many spies were going around taking pictures and asking probing questions.

Fighters and missiles on display.

Seeing all the missiles, I remembered something I saw once in Lao. Lao, a little country between China, Thailand and Vietnam was heavily bombed by the Americans during the Vietnam War to cut-off the supply routes of the North Vietnamese fighters.

The Laotians today use the remnants of these bombs as flowerpots.

USAF markings on the bomb.

Another missile fin being used as a dustbin in a Lao guesthouse.

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