BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman who bought a Russian fighter jet online wants his money back after finding it could not be shipped to China, state media reported on Tuesday.

Hilarious :D

LOL... well he DID state it was only supposed to be on display as advertisement, but still... Bleh!

Hehe i read about this when he first bought the plane. :D I'd love to have the money to go around buying jet planes becasue i wanted to lighten the office up a bit. But i still cant see why it cant be shipped to china.

because it's clasified as military plane. and the customs didnt' get any clearence form the government.

AFAIK it was stripped of military hardware, so it shoul dbe classified as civilian plane. but they probably didnt' do this so customs denied it's entry.

also i believe in South Africa there is a collector of old war planes. If i remember correctly he also has some early Jet fighters as well as some more recent ones. offcourse not the latest.

yah would be cool to buy the fast Eurofigther or the "invisible" Raptor. :w00t:

I want a harrier!

That's it?! He bought it for less than $25,000?! And it's in the US right now? <Calls wife> Honey, do you mind if I do a little landscaping in the front yard? It'll look great when I'm done, honest...

If I had my choice of MiGs, though, I'd want a MiG-3.

I don't want a mig. I want a Harrier :(

None on the surplus civilian market yet :cry:

But in the US atleast you can buy a bunch of different military fighters if you have the money Migs, even western planes. There was a F-18 on Ebay not too long ago $9 million ready too fly.

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Ofcourse they have all the weapons demilled and the advanced weapon systems and avionics are all stripped out.

Now where's the fun in that? :eeeeeh:
I really would want an F-22 Raptor. It's the best damned plane around. :ph34r:

But i want some weapons, only a few. :cry: