[FPSPACE] military Salyuts..

[Jim Oberg]

Nor are there any apparent orbital catalog blips that would
suggest that more pieces were suddenly being tracked.

The 'target' could have been ejected by the spacecraft,
but again, I am far from being convinced that this claim
is credible.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jones" <clj at panix.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] military Salyuts..


> 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.