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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: aknimitz on July 11, 2002, 07:33:52 PM
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This great!
(http://gandalf.totalcs.com/~nimitz/p40.jpg)
My law firm represents importers/exporters of firearms, defense articles, etc. This is a plane that I just helped a client import, with repairs from Australia. Same client has about 10 warbirds, thought you guys might like to see a pic of one of 'em :)
S!
Nim
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ak, when I get into the warbirds business I will call ya :)
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take all the cool picks you want and enjoy it while you can. you're a lawyer... that outweighs everything else as far as cool jobs go. ;)
AKDejaVu
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Cant believe it was painted in those colours in Australia..dont they know that the Ausies had the 3rd largest airforce in the world in 1945(at least in may 1945 I believe...but not in june 1945..)
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Nim is a Lawyer. We can make him file a petition to change it into Aussie colours !
Lets sue !
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Question: did you have any experience importing any WWII machinery from Russia/formerUSSR?
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Boroda, yes - a little.
Pongo - it wasnt painted in Australia, just repairs made to the wings.
:)
Nim
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Just curious: what was your impression about Russian laws and our beloved customs service? ;)
I just remember that Karelian search team who found the Buffalo fighter and got arrested for "posessing firearms and ammunition", for that rusty Browning MGs...
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Several years ago some guy here in Finland bought a Mig-25 (http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/tapiola/mig2.jpg) reconnaissance version from Russia. Guess everything is possible :D
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One of my friends worked buying copper and aluminium at Kuban' several years ago. He said once a VVS officer just brought them a MiG-25 and recieved more then $5,000 for it as recycleable aluminium...
25s are off-duty for almost 10 years now, so it's possible to buy them as trash. You only need to find right people ;)
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Originally posted by Boroda
One of my friends worked buying copper and aluminium at Kuban' several years ago. He said once a VVS officer just brought them a MiG-25 and recieved more then $5,000 for it as recycleable aluminium...
25s are off-duty for almost 10 years now, so it's possible to buy them as trash. You only need to find right people ;)
Are Nukes in the same boat? :rolleyes:
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Eagler, I bet I can find you a couple for reasonable price, but if you come here to buy them - I promise that you'll spend some time in Russian prison, and probably will be transferred to Guantanamo after you'll get really bored there ;)
There is some difference with an obsolete signed-off aircraft and a nuke. Nuclear security is on the highest possible degree here.
This legends about "Russian nukes for sale" shows how little Western people know about what's going on here. It's a nature of our country - some things are very hard to understand if you don't live here.
I wish Leonid will share his impressions about two weeks he spent here :)
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Originally posted by Boroda
There is some difference with an obsolete signed-off aircraft and a nuke. Nuclear security is on the highest possible degree here.
Somehow I get the sinking feeling that this doesnt really say all that much...
What about the US report about 82 russian nuklear warheads being "unnacounted for"?
Just an American lie?
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Who reported about that 82 warheads?
Same people who still say all Russians wear fur-hats and we have to beware of the bears in the streets?
Any "missing" warhead will mean that all the people responsible for it, including military district commander and defence minister will be fired and put under investigation.
Believe me, the level of security in this field is hard to imagine.
My friend served in "special cargo guard" service of Internal troops, stationed in Arzamas-16, the National nuclear research center. He told many interesting thing about it. He was a only a sergeant, but he still can't get a foreign passport and go abroad, only because he saw the ID cards for the weapon factory personell...
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Sources on missing nukes
Can a Nuke Really Fit into a Suitcase?
Time magazine 10-29-01
Osama's Nuclear Quest
Time magazine 11-12-01
I thought it was common knowledge, apparently I was wrong, sorry for posting withouy source.
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Time (as 99.9% of "popular" press) can't be considered a serious source. It goes along with furhats, bears in the streets and vodka for breakfast.
Frankly speaking - I'll not trust even official CIA reports on this subject. You have to understand that some things are classified so deeply that I'll never even want to know about them.
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While I agree that Time magazine cannot be considered a source, they refer to an official US govt source in those two articles. I dont have the magazines here so I can pull a quote for you.
As for the classified so deeply that you dont want to know about it, it sounds awfully close to shutting your eyes and wishing really hard...if you know what I mean.
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All we can do about it is to hope it never happens.
You can think whatever you want, but I am 100% sure that no nukes are in the wrong hands now. Or we could see a nuclear blast here in Moscow 5-7 years ago. THEY "love" us even more then poor Americans. Just check http://www.kavkaz.org