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The TP-82 was the result of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov's concerns after being stranded in the Siberian wilderness when his Voskhod capsule malfunctioned. He feared that the 9x18mm Makarov pistol that was provided in his survival kit would be ineffective against the Siberian wildlife, such as Eurasian brown bears and Eurasian wolves.
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An unusual but notable drilling is the TP-82, a short-barreled drilling pistol consisting of two 12.5x70mm (40-gauge) smoothbore shotgun barrels over a 5.45x39mm rifle barrel with a detachable shoulder stock that also doubled as a machete.
Cosmonaut's survival kit in Polytechnical Museum, Moscow Sailors take inventory of a C-2A Greyhound's liferaft kit in USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) paraloft shop. A survival kit is a package of basic tools and supplies prepared as an aid to survival in an emergency. Civil and military aircraft, lifeboats, and spacecraft are equipped with survival kits.
As of 2008, it was reported that Russian cosmonauts have regularly carried the TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol on Soyuz spacecraft, as part of the emergency landing survival kit. The intent of the weapon is to protect cosmonauts from wild animals in the event of an off-course wilderness landing.
TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol: 40 gauge / 5.45×39mm Soviet Union: c.1986-? TT pistol: Tula Arms Plant: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 1930–1955 (in Soviet Union) [11] Trejo pistol: Armas Trejo S.A. Zacatlan.22 Long Rifle.380 ACP Mexico: 1950s Type 14 Nambu: Nambu Jūseizōsho: 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1906–1945 Type 64 pistol: China North ...
A triple-barreled TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol in Saint-Petersburg Artillery museum. The delay of 46 seconds caused the spacecraft to land 386 km (240 mi) from the intended landing zone, in the inhospitable forests of Upper Kama Upland, somewhere west of Solikamsk. Although flight controllers had no idea where the spacecraft had landed or ...
The only parts which are not steel are the rubber butt plate and cheek rest. Aircrew were instructed to wrap the barrels with parachute cord as a field expedient fore-stock. [4] [5] The Scout has a rifle barrel mounted above a .410 shotgun barrel, this is known as a superposed "over-under" design.