Big buy: Brad Pitt snaps up Russian tank for LA mansion

• Brad Pitt buys Russian tank for home
• Star fell in love with new toy on movie set
• Military vehicle is being shipped to LA

Just a little something for the garden... a T54 Soviet tank from the set of World War Z.

With an estimated net worth of $150 million, Brad Pitt can buy whatever he wants. 

 

But even a Hollywood star such as Brad Pitt might have a bit of explaining to do to his partner Angelina Jolie when the Soviet era T54 Russian tank he has reportedly just bought is dropped off at his home.

Pitt, 47, has added the heavily armoured vehicle to his collection after falling in love when it was used as a prop in his upcoming zombie disaster movie World War Z.

It might not agree with Jolie, but there's a fiar bet his children Pax, Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne and Knox, will love their daddy's new toy.

The military vehicle is currently being shipped to Los Angeles.

The first T-54 prototype appeared in March 1945, just before the end of the Second World War. However the 36 tonnes vehicle entered full production in 1947 and became the main tank for armored units of the Soviet Army

The T-54/55 series eventually became the most-produced tank in history, with estimated production numbers ranging from 86,000 to 110,000

The film has been beset with problems. A SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse holding weapons being used in the zombie movie last month, seizing 85 fully-functional weapons, most of which were automatic, military-style assault rifles.

Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Unit, said: 'We can confirm that weapons were confiscated at an airport.

"A private plane brought guns wrapped in a parcel from a company to an individual [in Budapest]," Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Unit, said.

"Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren't."

Apparently the weapons came with paperwork claiming they were non-functional, but turned out to be in working order.

"The movie company's employees must have made a mistake bringing the guns in without the Anti-Terrorism Unit's permission," Mr Janos said.

The film, made by Pitt's Plan B Entertainment production company, is scheduled to be released in December next year.

Via news.com.au