"Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU-95"
Hopefully the auction ends before it's repossessed by its "original owners" who are closing in fast....
TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber
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#12Did 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)
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when Tu-95 were flying out on patrol in Atlantic, the US underwater listening stations (for submarines) installed on the Greenland-Iceland-Norway line were registering the planes too.
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#14"Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU-95" Hopefully the auction ends before it's repossessed by its "original owners" who are closing in fast....
there is a reason why US and the others were rushing for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons 20 years ago :) See Lord of War too.
Interesting how recent developments continue to show the difference between how countries are treated when they have nuclear weapons vs. when they don't have, like North Korea vs. Iraq. Looking at Ukraine i wonder what Iran think :)
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#15That 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.
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when Tu-95 were flying out on patrol in Atlantic, the US underwater listening stations (for submarines) installed on the Greenland-Iceland-Norway line were registering the planes too.
The TU-95 is probably the loudest vehicle ever built that wasn't rocket powered. The prop tips are well into the supersonic range.
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#17It took me only a few seconds to find on Google Maps:
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&spn=0.00...
Looks like it has a few siblings, so what you're getting is not as exclusive as you might think...
That explains the pictures on the eBay auction appearing to be from different fuselages - they actually are (the two rightmost ones on Google Maps).
EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not. Perhaps it's the same plane in different locations, I can't be sure.
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#18Did 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)
on the former USSR territories it is called "privatization". Sooner or later it happens to anything there...
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#19It took me only a few seconds to find on Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&spn=0.00... Looks like it has a few siblings, so what you're getting is not as exclusive as you might think... That explains the pictures on the eBay auction appearing to be from different fuselages - they actually are (the two rightmost ones on Google Maps). EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not. Perhaps it's the same plane in…
Do you have something that helps you search Google Maps or are you just good at doing it manually?
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#20An ad for a Soviet Bomber, with the description in Comic Sans, followed by a verbatim dump of the TU-95MS Wikipedia page. But the seller has an excellent rating, so it's probably legit.
welcome to bitcoin.