So it's been ten years...

By the way, no number of planes flying in formation is cause for alarm; like most Americans, you've been fed your own fear. Air strikes occur with no warning at all: no formation flying, no "terror alert", and if there WAS an air raid siren, it would sound mere seconds before explosions occur. Even the sound of approaching jets is late relative to bomb and rocket arrival.

A hostile formation would be met with beyond-visual-range missiles from more than 10 miles out, and on the far side of Mach 3; your first indication that a formation is hostile would be its rapid disintegration into flaming tinfoil.

You might have noticed the US Navy shot a satellite down a couple of years ago. It was 150 miles up.

Sheltering has value from subsequent explosions, secondary explosions and the release of chemicals from destroyed facilities, but you just don't get warning for the first strike.

So. It's been ten years...

If we ever become a free country again, the revolutionaries will need boats to storm OUR Bastille.

As far as air strikes (how did that topic get in here?) -- forget about any warning even for strikes after the first. They'll use a drone with a silenced weapon, or for big targets, a TOT barrage.

Consider the emotions.

Ah yes, Bastille Day - when we celebrate a mob storming a prison, killing the guards and setting the prisoners free. That little dust up gave us the French Revolution, from which we got the guillotine, a megalomaniacal dictator bent on world conquest, 20 years of war, and the metric system.