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Salyut 3 and the Soviet space cannon, when the USSR tested a gun in orbit during the Cold War space race
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched military space stations under the Almaz program, some even armed with a cannon designed to defend against hostile spacecraft. In 1975, one of ...
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R-36 Orb: The forbidden space weapon hidden behind ‘alien’ sightings
In the spring of 1967, a series of unusual sightings began to grip the ...
The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted for use in the unforgiving vacuum of space. “This battle station is now ...
Originally published: Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974. Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000. Presage -- First steps -- Stalin and ...
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The Soviet space cannon, how the USSR hid a 23mm gun on Salyut 3 and fired it in orbit
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union quietly turned a “civilian” space station into a weapon, installing a rapid-fire cannon on Salyut 3 under the secret Almaz program. Decades later, declassified fragments ...
pt. I. Zero-gravity capitalists : 1988-1990. Knocking on the Soviet's door ; Perestroika in orbit ; Tricking state and NASA ; The world turns upside down ; The Mir really exists ; Aren't two routes ...
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