[FPSPACE] military Salyuts..

[Chris Jones]

On 11/14/06, pjp <pjp961 at svol.net> wrote:
> JimO has sent me an e-mail telling me that it may have been Salyut 3 that
> had the Nudelmann gun on it, rather than Salyut 5.
>
> Salyut 3 was launched on June 25, 1974.

The following text appears in dozens if not hundreds of web articles about
Salyut 3:

  On January 24, 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. The next day, the
station was
  ordered to deorbit.

I can't find a reference to the identity of the target satellite.
Interestingly, the station
was without a crew at the time, meaning that the firing was either automatic or
remotely controlled.