[FPSPACE] Nudelman cannon tests

[Jim Oberg]

Or could a target have been deployed out the
film canister airlock?

My concept of the use of the cannon was
for an approaching object with nearly-matched orbits,
not a passing high-speed innocent satellite.
Hence, a deployed target would replicate
the desired mission characteristics quite well.

But I had not heard until now that the
cannon was fired with the crew on board -- didn't
previous accounts say it was remote-control fired
after the crew landed?

Good news item, Dave. Thanks!

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Anderman" <davida at cwo.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Nudelman cannon tests


> 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
>
>
>
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