Privately owned Su-27 in U.S. ?

[Cruelbreed]

http://www.tacticalairsupport.com/services.html

their plane
http://www.tacticalairsupport.com/services_files/plane31.jpg
(http://www.tacticalairsupport.com/services_files/plane31.jpg)

[HolX]

Kind of silly that the Russians sell their fighter technology to anyone that wants it. Who knows what it's missing but it makes it obvious the U.S. is well aware of most russian fighter jet capabilities.. they're available EVERYWHERE.

[napalmdeath1.0]

sweet, a pvt owned su27 you have to love capitalism :)

[Cruelbreed]

Like what do you do with that thing? I think this company prepares them for their owners or something.

[Cruelbreed]

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[dmaxx3500]

''bob lutz'' vp at gm has a russian fighter

[Toki]

It has to be a pain to fix one of those.

[Payne]

As far as i know, all russian military aircrafts wich are to be sold to a third party partner are pretty much downgraded: engine has 80 % of the power, sensors range is 4 or 40 km shorter compared to the russian military counter parts... will look onto details

[slowz3r]

Hell the USAF has a squaron based out of groom lake that flies russian fighters so they really dont do a good job keeping track of where there equipment goes

[joedan]

If I had that kind of cash I think I'd rather have an F-4 Phantom. What a brute. Love that aircraft.

[Spieler]

Only one note - these are not russian. Ukraine sold these two. Just 19 years ago there were no differences betwen russian or ukrainean, but nowadays there is big difference.
Ukrainian army formally exist at the expense of such sales now. In 2008 the few divisions of Buk-M1 (SA-11 Gadfly) and T-72 were sold to Georgia in such way)). Or you can probadly remember ukraineans "Colchuga" in Iraq.

[Spieler]

And here is its systems test
YouTube- Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker engine runs

[dmaxx3500]

thats ok,but i want an F-14 Tomcat

[greenmamba]

thats ok,but i want an F-14 Tomcat

Look for a cheap one in iran. They have got a few but the U.S. sells them no spare parts.
So most of them stand pretty much useless on the ground

[pack21269]

It has to be a pain to fix one of those.

I doubt it, all Russian equipment its meant to be repaired with a hammer and some duck tape. lol

[death2mooj]

could always get counterfeited parts from china to fix it