[FPSPACE] Nudelman cannon tests

[David Anderman]

According to this web site:

http://salyut.biography.ms/

There was a test of the Nudelman cannon that destroyed a target satellite:

"<http://www.biography.ms/Salyut_3.html>Salyut 3 was launched on 
<http://www.biography.ms/June_25.html>June 25, 
<http://www.biography.ms/1974.html>1974. It was another Almaz 
military space station, this one launched successfully. It tested a 
wide variety of reconnaissance sensors, returning a canister of film 
for analysis. On <http://www.biography.ms/January_24.html>January 24, 
<http://www.biography.ms/1975.html>1975 trials of the on-board 23mm 
Nudelmann aircraft cannon (other sources say it was a Nudelmann NR-30 
30mm gun) were conducted with positive results at ranges from 3000 m 
to 500 m. Cosmonauts have confirmed that a target satellite was 
destroyed in the test. "

I am wondering if the pointing capability of the Salyut was really 
sufficient to hit a passing satellite at that range, and did another 
satellite actually pass by Salyut that closely that day?

DWA