[FPSPACE] military Salyuts..

[Igor Lissov]

Chris,

> 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.

Naturally you can't because the text quoted is a bullshit.

The gun has been tested indeed but just to see how it works in zero g
and how Almaz reacts to firing, without any target even in imagnation.

Igor Lissov