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Posted: 12/21/2003 5:19:46 PM EDT

This would make a good gift for the man who has everything.

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=5311742

Edit to say - Must cut and paste. Hot linking doesn't work.

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:31:40 PM EDT

[#1]

linky no workie

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:32:03 PM EDT

[#2]

linky no worky

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:39:24 PM EDT

[#3]

Buy it now for only $6M. Out of my league, plus, with max. speed of 25kts, not even really good for water skiing.

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:46:21 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
linky no workie

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It don't work for me either. I rechecked it. It's right. Damn if I know. Same link is on the High Road and it works.

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:52:07 PM EDT

[#5]

I guess I can't use the guy in New Mexico as my FFL for that thing. Plus, I'm pretty sure the management at Marina del Rey will have issues about berthing...

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:54:04 PM EDT

[#6]

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=5311742

Link fixed. Hotlinking won't work.

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:58:09 PM EDT

[#7]

Still don't work

Posted: 12/21/2003 5:59:54 PM EDT

[#8]

"Copy-n-Paste" Works.........

Count me in for 1K on a group buy, 300 meter ranges are hard to come by.
[sniper]

Posted: 12/21/2003 6:05:35 PM EDT

[#9]

http:// is linked twice :-)

Posted: 12/21/2003 6:46:10 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm going to print the auction web page, take it to my credit union and see if they will give me a boat loan.

CW

Posted: 12/21/2003 6:56:37 PM EDT

[#11]

[url]http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=5311742[/url]

Posted: 12/21/2003 7:47:50 PM EDT

[#12]

Buyer will have to pay an additional $3.5 million for the removal of all weaponary on board plus US or UK government permission (if the buyer is from a non-NATO country.)

I want the damn weapons if I buy it.

Is this transfered on a form 3?

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:10:01 PM EDT

[#13]

Seems like they would take the $3.5 million off the price if they take the weapons after the sale.

If the city of L.A. puchases it, they could have the Rams move back to L.A. and play on the deck. For away games, it could travel to different ports...

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:25:14 PM EDT

[#14]

Its cool and all, but can you water ski from it?

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:33:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Forget the carrier...

[img]http://pictures.auctionarms.com/844032716/CARRIER-1.jpg[/img]

Get the SUB!

[url]http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?ItemNum=5311495[/url]

[img]http://pictures.auctionarms.com/844032716/SUB-641.jpg[/img]

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:33:30 PM EDT

[#16]

I couldn't find it in the web page. Who pays for shipping?

CW

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:35:28 PM EDT

[#17]

Or if land based is your tast....

[img]http://pictures.auctionarms.com/844032716/T72-tank-1.gif[/img]
[url]http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?ItemNum=5314517[/url]

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:36:56 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Its cool and all, but can you water ski from it?

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Actually, yes, you could water ski from it. Minimum speed needed for water skiing is somewhere above 12/13 mph (15mph is about the slowest used in slalom comp.), and the aircraft carrier is said to be capable of about 25knots, which is about 28mph. Not very fast for water skiing, but you could do it, which would be damn cool to get on video!

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:38:06 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I couldn't find it in the web page. Who pays for shipping?

CW

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Shipping? I don't think so... you go pick it up personally.

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:41:32 PM EDT

[#20]

[img]http://pictures.auctionarms.com/844032716/SUB-641.jpg[/img]

Too small : )

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:47:47 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Or if land based is your tast....

[url]http://pictures.auctionarms.com/844032716/T72-tank-1.gif[/url]
[url]http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?ItemNum=5314517[/url]

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Would I have to take the FH off to make it Cali legal?

CW

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:53:09 PM EDT

[#22]

Ah ain't that a cute little carrier [:)]

Posted: 12/21/2003 8:55:49 PM EDT

[#23]

Found a Colt Pre-ban with betamag and M7 bayonet for $3100

[shock]

[url]http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=5306117[/url]

Posted: 12/21/2003 9:01:56 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
"Copy-n-Paste" Works.........

Count me in for 1K on a group buy, 300 meter ranges are hard to come by.

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300 meters? You're not thinking outside the box, here. What you do is bring a whole bunch of buoys with you and set up a floating shooting range in the water. Then, you move the carrier back so the furthest target from the flight deck is 1,000 yards. Drop anchor, and have at it!

Posted: 12/21/2003 9:10:32 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
"Copy-n-Paste" Works.........

Count me in for 1K on a group buy, 300 meter ranges are hard to come by.

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300 meters? You're not thinking outside the box, here. What you do is bring a whole bunch of buoys with you and set up a floating shooting range in the water. Then, you move the carrier back so the furthest target from the flight deck is 1,000 yards. Drop anchor, and have at it!

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Or...launch clays with the catapult. Anybody ever hit a 200 mph clay?

CW

Posted: 12/21/2003 11:24:07 PM EDT

[#26]

They got alot of SHTF stuff.[:P]

I wonder if they will have an after christmas sale?

Posted: 12/22/2003 1:23:52 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
"Copy-n-Paste" Works.........

Count me in for 1K on a group buy, 300 meter ranges are hard to come by.

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300 meters? You're not thinking outside the box, here. What you do is bring a whole bunch of buoys with you and set up a floating shooting range in the water. Then, you move the carrier back so the furthest target from the flight deck is 1,000 yards. Drop anchor, and have at it!

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Or...launch clays with the catapult. Anybody ever hit a 200 mph clay?

CW

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If you can dig the price,
Might as well throw in a few Hueys and and practice some amphibious assaults.
Not to mention the below deck ranges and galleries and killhouses-hell use the whole aircraft carrier as a kill house![coffee]

Posted: 12/22/2003 1:42:43 AM EDT

[#28]

Two Words........
[size=6][red][b]FLOATING GUNSTOCK[/b][/red][/size=6]

Posted: 12/22/2003 3:49:33 AM EDT

[#29]

I would buy it, except I think for the price, I want all the toys.

I would be happy to register it in the sudan or some such place, but it is like buying a declawed tiger, Why bother?

Posted: 12/22/2003 4:04:52 AM EDT

[#30]

"Buyer will have to pay an additional $3.5 million for the removal of all weaponary on board......."

BULLSHIT!
Keep your friggen boat!

Posted: 12/22/2003 4:31:00 AM EDT

[#31]

Does anybody know what the original name of this carrier was?

Posted: 12/22/2003 5:15:44 AM EDT

[#32]

Drive it twelve miles out and it becomes a class lll paradise.[:D]

Posted: 12/22/2003 5:26:06 AM EDT

[#33]

28mph aint bad for water skiing, but just imagine the wake, it'd be like surfing.

Is it nuclear powered?

Posted: 12/22/2003 5:43:12 AM EDT

[#34]

Looks like a diesel boat. You know this dude has zero feedback and here he is selling multi thousand dollar auctions. I want what his Auction Arms bill is going to be?

Posted: 12/22/2003 5:55:42 AM EDT

[#35]

group buy for the first ar15.com time share vacation cruise line?

Posted: 12/22/2003 7:14:41 AM EDT

[#36]

HMS Vengance
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/

Vengeance was a light fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy's Colossus Class. She was built by Swan Hunter, launched on 16th November, 1942, and commissioned 14th January, 1945.

HMS Vengeance was decommissioned in 1955 from the Royal Navy and sold to Brazil on 12th December 1956, where she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy in 1960 and renamed Navio-Aeródromo Ligeiro (NAeL) Minas Gerais, and coded A-11.

On 16th October 2001, Minas Gerais was finally de-commissioned by the Brazilian Navy and is currently at the Naval Dockyard at Rio de Janeiro where she is largely mothballed as "Care and maintenance" but with 350 men onboard the ship to keep the remaining systems operating.

30 October 2003:
It was reported today that formally the contract was rescinded on 4 September 2003 with Chinese H.J. Jienxiin shipping merchants for purchase of HMS Vengeance/Minas Gerais 14 months after failing to pay for the R$ 5.7 million (1.18 million GBP at today’s value).

Posted: 12/22/2003 7:38:02 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
HMS Vengance
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/

Vengeance was a light fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy's Colossus Class. She was built by Swan Hunter, launched on 16th November, 1942, and commissioned 14th January, 1945.

HMS Vengeance was decommissioned in 1955 from the Royal Navy and sold to Brazil on 12th December 1956, where she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy in 1960 and renamed Navio-Aeródromo Ligeiro (NAeL) Minas Gerais, and coded A-11.

On 16th October 2001, Minas Gerais was finally de-commissioned by the Brazilian Navy and is currently at the Naval Dockyard at Rio de Janeiro where she is largely mothballed as "Care and maintenance" but with 350 men onboard the ship to keep the remaining systems operating.

30 October 2003:
It was reported today that formally the contract was rescinded on 4 September 2003 with Chinese H.J. Jienxiin shipping merchants for purchase of HMS Vengeance/Minas Gerais 14 months after failing to pay for the R$ 5.7 million (1.18 million GBP at today’s value).

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Hummm....wonder who the seller is? Da govt that owns it????

Posted: 12/22/2003 7:58:25 AM EDT

[#38]

about the tanks how would the ATF handle these would it be even possible for us to own? I would think that the gun barrel would classify
has DD would it.