[FPSPACE] Nudelman cannon tests

[Jim Oberg]

OK, I see the test firing WAS after the crew
had landed -- so the test was entirely ground-controlled.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Oberg" <joberg at houston.rr.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>; "David Anderman" <davida at cwo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Nudelman cannon tests


> 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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