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Why Soviet cosmonauts carried guns, the Voskhod 2 survival scare, and the secret TP-82 built for bears and wolves
After a 1965 off-course landing stranded cosmonauts in a frozen Ural forest, the Soviet program created the TP-82, a purpose-built survival gun meant for Earth’s harshest terrain, not space combat. It ...
Wikipedia The Russian TP-82. For 2o years Russians were equipped with a triple-barreled gun with a swing-out machete for space missions. The TP-82 pistol was included in the Soyuz Portable ...
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Why Soviet cosmonauts carried a gun into space, the TP-82 survival weapon built for Earth’s harshest landings
After a Soviet capsule landed deep in the frozen Ural wilderness in 1965, survival fears pushed engineers to design the TP-82, a custom three-barrel firearm meant to protect crews after off-course ...
To this day, the Russian Federal Space Agency refuses to talk about the weapon—though it’s an open secret. Astronauts heading to the International Space Station have trained with it, and ...
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