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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 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.
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
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 ]
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 ...
The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga-class cruiser.. Anti-satellite weapons, which are primarily surface-to-space and air-to-space missiles, have been developed by the United States, the USSR/Russia, India and the People's Republic of China.
[2] [3] It was used only in the tail turret of the Tu-22, and experimentally on the Salyut 3 space station. [4] [5] A modified version of the weapon was the only cannon to have been fired in space. [6] [7] Cased telescoped ammunition for the LSAT light machine gun has reached technology readiness level 7. [8]
Rather than a single straight barrel, the SHARP gun uses an L-shape design with two separate sections; the 270 ft (82 m) long steel combustion section & pump tube section is connected to the 155 ft (47 m) long launch tube (or barrel) at a right angle. 100,000 kg (220,000 lb) rail-mounted sleds sit at both ends of the pump tube to absorb recoil energy from firing and a smaller 10,000 kg (22,000 ...