Pssst. Wanna buy a Mig-31? For $5?

**jlvfr** · 07 Aug 09,, 16:18

Well... not the whole aircraft but...

Mig-31 for $5

**Dreadnought** · 07 Aug 09,, 17:06

For years there was a man who owned one and it sat in his gas station for years, painted bright red with the hammer and sicle on the tail. I will go past there and snap a pic if it is still there. Heheheheheh A mig in Chester Pennsylvania.

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**jlvfr** · 07 Aug 09,, 17:33

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

For years there was a man who owned one and it sat in his gas station for years, painted bright red with the hammer and sicle on the tail. I will go past there and snap a pic if it is still there. Heheheheheh A mig in Chester Pennsylvania.

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?!!?!!? A -31? I'd bed it was a -25...

**Dreadnought** · 07 Aug 09,, 17:41

Originally Posted by jlvfr

?!!?!!? A -31? I'd bed it was a -25...

Very possibly, but still very out of place.

**axeman** · 07 Aug 09,, 17:52

Russia's economy really isn't doing well, is it ?

**citanon** · 07 Aug 09,, 19:04

Notice that the proper price was only $3.7 million.

**pmuklherjee** · 07 Aug 09,, 19:21

Originally Posted by axeman

Russia's economy really isn't doing well, is it ?

Yeah but Russia's economy has never done well. Even the Tsars were bankrupt and so was Soviet Union. But that has never come in the way of Russia being a great military power. They just do these things differently.

**jlvfr** · 07 Aug 09,, 21:42

Originally Posted by citanon

Notice that the proper price was only $3.7 million.

Yeah, but then, it was only a 20-year old empty airframe...

**zraver** · 08 Aug 09,, 19:12

It was probably sold inside Russia to a scrap metals dealer.

**Officer of Engineers** · 08 Aug 09,, 22:40

For $5? I couldn't get a cord of firewood for $5. Hell, it would cost more than that in gasoline for me to cut a cord.

**Andrey Egorov** · 04 Sep 09,, 06:43

Those four airframes already bought back for about $100,000 to be sold to Syria. Israel can sleep at ease.

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Russia to supply Syria with MIG-31 fighters

**Jimmy** · 10 Sep 09,, 17:31

Originally Posted by pmuklherjee

Yeah but Russia's economy has never done well. Even the Tsars were bankrupt and so was Soviet Union. But that has never come in the way of Russia being a great military power. They just do these things differently.

I'm not sure I'd call pushing the "reset" button every hundred years a good way to do it.