Interesting Little Tidbit

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by RN7

I think I mentioned this in my thread about T2K in space. Practical people the Russians, the Salyut 3 space station in the 1970's was also fitted with a 23mm canon.

What kind of monster recoil buffers did they use for that?

[stormlion1]

Think about this, the Russians probably still have a back up pistol on there spacecraft. So does that mean the Russians on the International Space Station are armed?

[RN7]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

What kind of monster recoil buffers did they use for that?

The 23mm canon on maybe 30mm cannon on the Salyut 3 space station was either one of the three...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudelman-Rikhter_NR-23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikhter_R-23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudelman-Rikhter_NR-30

The gun on the Almaz military variant of the Salyut space station was verified by Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich who visited the station in orbit. Testing the canon in orbit was ruled when cosmonaut's were on the station due to potential shaking of the station. The canon was fixed to the station in such a way that the only way to aim would have been to change the orientation of the entire station. Following the last manned mission to the station, the gun was commanded to be fired to depletion, while other sources say three test firings took place during the Salyut 3 mission.

[Olefin]

didnt Heston have a single Colt and three magazines for it in Planet of the Apes in the survival gear?

always loved the guns the Apes had - nice to see the M1 is still in use a thousand years in the future

[.45cultist]

When the U.S. was attempting to make a manned space photorecon mission, I imagine the kit would have been similar to the U2's. .22 silenced High Standards were the norm then. If he hadn't died in a plane crash, the mission would have had the first black astronaut in the 1960's.