It's not like sending Spitfires overseas in a pine box any more.
But the closest I’ve gotten to messing around with this stuff is my L39 (terrible idea, should’ve bought a boat instead. wife hates me now), which did indeed come with some soviet era kit screwed on. Came off easily enough after removing a couple of screws.
I’d be surprised if the interesting parts of the radio equipment they’ve screwed onto the old MiGs would take much more than that to remove.
Aviation authority approvals might take months, but I can’t imagine that being an issue for military planes like this.
Just my uninformed speculation though.
please, tell me that there are pictures I can look. I love those little planes :D
The dawgs got your back though – I'd do it too, assuming it didn't thrust you into financial disaster. YOLO.
It sounds like you don't think it's a good purchase, so I'm curious what would you have done instead given what you know now?
I found a photo of what this looks like (different airplane, but same era):