[AndrewZM]

What this entire story is missing is that the guy is an engineer and he was building full scale models (according to his story) to test his research, he already has some patents from 2015, which kinda make his story a bit more credible. Knowing how competent the police is in Moldova, it will not surprise me that they just fucked up...

The other question is, who in their right mind would buy such helicopters(if you can call them helicopters :D )? I wouldnt even get close to one...

[netsharc]

I wonder if they're trying to scam baddies (who else buys copters in the black market?), they could deliver these copters with some final assembly required, e.g. to install the blades of the main rotor, maybe leave 1 technician with the clients, or just hire a technician who isn't in on the scam and let him be the discoverer of the bad news...

Alternatively, these are capable copter builders with parts which have "fallen off the back of trucks" in Russia (or even an inside group stealing parts from the official factory).

[mtnGoat]

Scamming bad actors out of lots of capital can be bad for ones health.

[agnokapathetic]

Source for the models/patent? I can’t find a name