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Russia has the corner on guns in space – MSNBC, Feb. 12, 2008; TP-82 : Russian space pistol / shotgun / carbine / flare gun no longer being carried into space (with photos) – The Firearm Blog; Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun into space; The TOZ-81 'Mars' Gun Was The Soviet Union's Ultimate Space Revolver, including information on the TP-82
Firing up to 2,500 rpm, the R-23 was the fastest firing single-barrel cannon ever introduced into service. The R-23 took some time to develop and was not used operationally until 1964. It was used only in the tail turret of the Tu-22 , and experimentally on the Salyut 3 space station .
The 5-inch L70 smoothbore guns was the first vertical firing gun system developed under Project HARP. [14] In 1962, a 10-ft extension was implemented for the 5-inch HARP gun by welding a second barrel section to the first, allowing it to launch projectiles at muzzle velocities of 1554 m/s (5,100 ft/sec) to altitudes of 73,100 m (240,000 ft). [ 20 ]
The Quicklaunch proposed firing apparatus was a light-gas gun using hydrogen as the working gas and natural gas as the explosive heat source. Heating and pre-pressurizing the hydrogen working gas takes 10 minutes before the shot and most of the hydrogen is recovered by a muzzle muffler at the end of the launch tube to be reused for subsequent launches.
The Soviet Almaz secret military space station program was equipped with a fixed 23mm autocannon to prevent hostile interception or boarding by hostile forces. [1] This was the first and so far the only space-to-space weapon to be fired in orbit. [2] [better source needed]
For a space gun with a gun barrel of length (), and the needed velocity (), the acceleration is provided by the following formula: [citation needed] = For instance, with a space gun with a vertical "gun barrel" through both the Earth's crust and the troposphere, totalling ~60 km (37 miles) of length (), and a velocity enough to escape the Earth's gravity (escape velocity, which is 11.2 km/s or ...
Space Research Corporation was a corporation founded by Gerald Bull, after the budget for his research at Project HARP for the United States and Canadian federal governments was cut in 1967, in order to commercialize the technology of long-range artillery. Project HARP's assets were then given to the newly formed SRC.
Space Station Tycoon was a video game to be released in for the Wii developed by Wahoo Studios [1] (developer of Outpost Kaloki X) and published by Namco Bandai. [2]