TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber

It took me only a few seconds to find on Google Maps: <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&amp;spn=0.007328,0.009259" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.google.com&#x2F;maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&amp;spn=0.00...</a><p>Looks like it has a few siblings, so what you&#x27;re getting is not as exclusive as you might think...<p>That explains the pictures on the eBay auction appearing to be from different fuselages - they actually are (the two rightmost ones on Google Maps).<p>EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not. Perhaps it&#x27;s the same plane in different locations, I can&#x27;t be sure.

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An ad for a Soviet Bomber, with the description in Comic Sans, followed by a verbatim dump of the TU-95MS Wikipedia page.<p>But the seller has an excellent rating, so it&#x27;s probably legit.

&quot;The airplane is not ready to fly. It is necessary to make a technical service and prolongation of the data limit.&quot;<p>Guessing something got lost in translation. In any case. as aircraft maintenance isn&#x27;t my area, any idea how viable&#x2F;costly it is to get airworthy? Could you even get spare parts anymore?

&quot;Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft...&quot;<p>Seems legit.

The best part of this listing is that they accept &quot;Cash in person&quot;.

&quot;Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU-95&quot;<p>Hopefully the auction ends before it&#x27;s repossessed by its &quot;original owners&quot; who are closing in fast....

For anyone else who was curious: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contra-rotating_propellers</a>

- Seller writes &quot;u&quot; and &quot;dissamble&quot; in &quot;We can therefore dissamble the Plane so u can get one or all of the turbines exclusively&quot;<p>- Price tag of US $3,000,000.<p>Well, I&#x27;m convinced. Here is my credit card!

Did people raid the Poltava Museum of Long-Range Aviation? According to wikipedia it has the only Tu-95 in Ukraine (as well as a Tu-160, in case you want a supersonic strategic bomber)

Item specifics Condition: Used<p>Seemed funny to me.

I too often buy military surplus hardware from ebay sites in Comic Sans.

If I bought this, I would totally convert it into a bar.

a good rule of thumb for warbirds is that however much it costs you to buy it is about how much it will cost you per year afterwards to keep it flying.

I have a vague sense of playing Eve Online when I see a Soviet bomber for 3M on EBay.

That is a fine piece of hardware. what would restoration cost? How do you even restore it ? spare parts, technicians on the Tu-95MS are probably not in ample supply.

More info:<p>MS stands for Maritime Strike<p><a href="http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Bear.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ausairpower.net&#x2F;APA-Bear.html</a>

&quot;The plane was manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours it is capable off.&quot;<p>Anyone know why there is a 5000 hour limit?

454 hours of flight time seems low for a military plane built in the 80&#x27;s. That is not very many flights from the Soviet Union to off the U.S. coastline.

If it&#x27;s legit, I wonder if it is a kind of retaliation for the invasion of Crimea or if the country is just broke and need cash.

&quot;Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU- 95MS&quot;<p>Uhm.....<p>To be fair, it is a pretty fast prop plane if restored.

&quot;Payments: Cash in person&quot;

How convenient that one can just post the spoils of war on ebay now.

Anyone wanna go halfsies?

Would Russia sell me a Tu-160 for the right price?

Wonder how it would be &quot;shipped&quot;

obvious question, is there a picture of the tail with the plane number?<p>Than sometimes you can pull up the air flight history

That&#x27;s a good purchase, Satoshi.

I dig the details regarding shipping.

Very appropriate typeface selection

Does preloaded cargo included?

Comic Sans is a nice touch.

weird that it doesn&#x27;t say they&#x27;re open for a bitcoin price.

put it on Pawn Stars