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I'm saving up for a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Hamilton_(WHEC-715)

If the Philippines can buy them for a few million I think a U.S. citizen should be able to. Never liked Yachts but I need an armored boat in my life. Mostly for trips to Japan.

They had something very similar to that moored on the Thames estuary near London (UK) and it was about £400,000. Less than a decent house around here!

I genuine considered it for a bit but the wife wasn't impressed when I told her the fuel tank took £22,000 to fill up :)

http://www.sovietarmor.com/catalog/armored/mi_24.html

If only...

Yeah I went there straight away too...I don't know why, I have a thing for that helicopter even though I'm not into militaria. I'm fighting off the temptation to purchase a large remote control kit now.

Note the pictures of the real products for sale don't always look like the flashy ones at the top:

http://www.sovietarmor.com/catalog/armored/wla_42.html

$700k for an MI-24 seems like a bargain. I like how the link for technical specifications goes to wikipedia...

I wonder if it's the version with the star over its most vulnerable spot or not. (Later models put armor-plate over that spot.)

They do say that it's for civilian or museum use only, so my money is on the one without the armour plating ;) Having said that, if it does have the armour plating...what's the resale value for titanium nowadays?

half inch, 12" by 12" for $360 from Amazon: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B00CNM793E (Grade 2)

They also have up to 4 inch thick 12x36 inch plate (only $8,000) and several other dimensions of sheets and rods: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B00MB366WA (Grade 5, higher strength alloy)

Free shipping, no customs, brand new.

I can't imagine how difficult customs would be when importing old military equipment from Russia.

These actually seem to be coming from Ukraine.

Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me.

We need less car than we think we do.

>> Car makers call it "contingency anxiety," the urge to buy a mechanically overqualified vehicle because maybe, once in a blue moon—or a hurricane on a high tide—the car buyer might need the extra functionality. The personal-use pickup market is a creature of contingency anxiety. After all, once a year, you need to bring home a Christmas tree.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732443980...

Full disclosure: I drive my daughter to Montessori school every morning in Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.

I have a GMC Canyon that sits in the garage next to our Prius. I bought it a year before the Prius, but it has about half the mileage on it.

That said, I generally find myself having to move something big once a week during the summer months for landscaping, remodelling, maintenance, play, etc, and those are the times when I find my pickup to be indispensable.

Maybe when relayrides is more ubiquitous, I'll rethink the truck, but right now it's a luxury at about $17k.

Lowes and Home Depot have by-the-hour pickup truck rental in many locations.

UHaul is always an option, too.

Yeah, I had a Cherokee and knew that the road out from my house flooded every 3 or 4 years. When if finally did ... the police got there first and blockaded it. I had to drive around anyway.

That was funny, I cussed for the next few miles.

In the 1970s in Colorado, I used to hear that a Volkswagen Beetle could make it up any road that a Jeep could--I guess that the short turning radius helped, and the lower ground clearance didn't matter that much.

There was a collector in the Palo Alto area who had stashed up three large warehouses full of tanks. The warehouses were open as a museum until recently. He had acquired some of the tanks for just $5000 (time of purchase unknown) from liquidation sale of the former soviet military equipment. Transportation to the US had cost him $50-80K for each tank. Fortunately for you (and unfortunately for everyone else) the collection was going to be liquidated or moved. So if you feel like buying a tank you could get one in the Silicon Valley. http://www.yelp.com/biz/military-vehicle-technology-foundati...

$500 for a tour of 25 people. Are there 25 people on HN who'd want to visit as a group?

The soviet APC's are outstanding EOTWAWKI vehicles- Armored and amphibious.

You can also go with the american v-100 (gage) if you are lucky enough to find one. They come up on ebay occasionally

Lots of edits there ;)

This whole site actually reminds me of the part in Lord of War where they're walking around the Soviet weapons expo, and then later just having items 'disappear'.

Or the one where they unscrew rocket mounts from helicopters to make them civilian machines, while the said mounts lie packaged next to them, being shipped 'somewhere else, for completely unrelated reasons'.

My old coworker worked with movie studies (Valley of Elah was one) as a consultant providing military like training to the actors. (Enough to make them look like military personell) if the business he was in didn't fall apart they had a hind helicopter on the way.. shipping and certification was more expensive than the chopper... besides that, it was mostly WW2 era jeeps, tanks, etc..

Still that APC looks pretty fun :-D

You can get those in Poland too, not sure about the export terms and regulations but it should be similar. This place is fairly close to the city I grew up in.

http://www.motodemont.com.pl/pl/podstrony/id/4_sprzet_wojsko...

If you do buy any of this kit you might want to read the novel "Red Army" and imagine what it might have been like fighting your way through NATO forces in West Germany in the 1980s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_%28novel%29

So for the price of Toyota Rav4 you can get this tank now?? Whoha!

http://www.sovietarmor.com/catalog/armored/ats_59.html

Rav4 has better MPG and cheaper service.

Is there a chance the APC could be made road-legal in the United States?

Those are 'export prices', local price is 1/10-1/30 of listed ones. I think someone made this site as a joke, or maybe counting on one sale to offset all of his costs.

Is selling military vehicles in the Ukraine at the moment wise?

I'll take 2 BRDMs please. Bad ass.

Eh, I'd rather get an ekranoplan.

How does it relate to sanctions?

It doesn't, this is Ukrainian business

hmm does not WU have an upper limit of $5000 on wire payments?

I'd imagine postage is going to be a problem too...

Site seems to be down?

Still working for me. Your local 'in the interest of national security' agency may be paying you a visit soon...

It seems to be back up now. The cross check to make sure I didn't have enough money to actually buy something probably cleared to lift the block...

Score 5: Funny

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