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can anyone translate:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82

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I have my doubts from what little i know about lasers. The part of turning it into a surgical laser was a bit over the top.

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sorry for off topic but you Avatar creaps me out, please explain

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sorry for off topic but you Avatar creaps me out, please explain

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can anyone translate:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82

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Sorry to derail further. It's from the movie Gummo. And if you think that avatar is creepy, try watching the whole movie.

Just think if the boys in Gummo had that laser pistol instead of pellet guns how many more cats they might have bagged!

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Sorry to derail further. It's from the movie Gummo. And if you think that avatar is creepy, try watching the whole movie.

Just think if the boys in Gummo had that laser pistol instead of pellet guns how many more cats they might have bagged!

I was under the impression cosmonauts carried Maks?

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On another discussion forum called Reddit.com, there is a user named Russian_Bear2011  who posts tons of outstanding Russian military photos to the military subforums.  He's been a wealth of knowledge so far.  Today he posted this.  I've never heard of it, or anything even remotely like it.  Here is his description of how it works:


I don't have a scientific background and this is essentially magic to me.  Has anyone heard of this before?  Is the concept viable?

 

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Think about it if you are space walking and everyone is in a space suit all you would need to do is make a small hole in the space suit and the dude in it would be dead.

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That has verisimilitude!

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Would cooling still be needed if the "laser pistol" was used in space?

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Yes. Things dont cool as well in space, no air to conduct away excess heat.

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How much air would you need when the temp is -444 f?

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Think about it if you are space walking and everyone is in a space suit all you would need to do is make a small hole in the space suit and the dude in it would be dead.

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Why would a laser have a magazine?



That looks like a crude joke.  It's a cake decorator.

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There are two lines of text quoted in the original post explaining why the laser pistol comes with ammo cartridges.  The validity of their use is in doubt, however.
 

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Why would the Soviets issue something so absurdly crude it looks like it came from a middle-school machine shop?

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The laser gun with a pyrotechnic flash lamp (laser weapons defense of individual astronauts) - Soviet pilot manual laser weapons non-lethal , developed in 1984 the design team of the Military Academy RVSN . Designed to effectively disabling the sensitive elements of optical systems of the enemy - in a spacecraft or in the open space in close combat - without the risk of damage to the skin or non-optical equipment and without the recoil, not allowing the use of firearms in weightlessness.

Is a monument to science and technology [2] [3] .
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   1 History
   2 The device
   3 Options
   4 laser gun at the present time
   5 Cultural influence
   6 Notes
   7 Literature
   8 References
   9 See also

[ edit ] History

In 70 years of XX century , many states (in the first place - the Soviet Union and the U.S. ) launched a program leading work on the creation of different laser devices for military and peaceful purposes - including the work was begun to develop weapons, damaging element is a laser beam.

SRF staff began the development of "individual self-defense laser weapons astronaut" - the laser gun . The research team led by chief of department, honored worker of science and technology of the RSFSR , doctor of technical sciences, professor, General-Major Victor Samsonovich Sulakvelidze ( 1919 - 1984 ). Theoretical and experimental studies of the harmful effect of the laser gun doing Ph.D., professor Boris Duvanov. The design was worked out weapons researcher A. Simonov, researcher L. Avakyants and associate Vladimir Gorev participated in the trials. Before the goal was to develop the designers of laser weapons, which according to weight, size and layout does not differ from the army pistol.
[ edit ] The device
See also: Laser # Laser Device

The laser gun is a fiber laser optical pumping. Its main elements, as well as any laser , are the active medium , the pump source and an optical resonator .

Source of optical pumping of the laser gun is a one-time fireworks flash lamp , made ​​in the form of rounds of 10 mm, inside of which is covered with a pyrotechnic mixture of combustible and paste tungsten - rhenium filament for its ignition. Pyrotechnic mixture is ignited by applying to the tungsten-rhenium filament of an electric spark from an external source. Eight flash lamps placed in a cage, like patrons in a cage fire a gun. After each "shot" spent lamp is thrown like a sleeve, and next served in the lighting chamber.

Pyrotechnic mixture flashbulbs - zirconium foil, oxygen and a metal salt. Set on fire by the metal in the lamp burns out during 5-10 ms at a temperature of about 5000 K. By using a flash lamp zirconium foil specific light energy pyrotechnic lamps are three times higher than conventional models, which use magnesium. Added to the mixture of metal salt, "urged on" light bulbs to the absorption spectrum of the active element. Pyrotechnic mixture is non-toxic and not prone spontaneously detonate.

The active medium and optical resonator arms are a fiber-optic active element, which absorbs radiation from burns in the chamber lighting flash lamp. This makes him a laser pulse directed through the gun barrel to the target.

The radiation energy within the limits of 1.10 J (comparable to a bullet fired from an air rifle), is sufficient to incapacitate the sensitive elements of optical systems (including the eye of man) of the enemy, but too small to damage the spacecraft or the skin of non- optical devices (this is attributable to the eye and optics focus the rays on the orders of increasing the density of radiation).

Blinding and searing action keeps the beam at a distance of 20 m.
[ edit ] Variants

On the basis of the laser gun was also developed a laser gun with drum magazine for six "rounds". Possible modification of the gun assault weapons in the medical instrument.
[ edit ] The laser gun now

The laser gun with a pyrotechnic flash lamp is a monument to science and technology. His copy is kept at the Museum of the history of the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy named after Peter the Great, being the most popular museum exhibit [3] [2] .
[ edit ] Cultural influence

   Works on creation of an individual is devoted to laser weapons, training and popular film "Dangerous Ray" studios Ministry of Defence [4] .
   In the movie 2001 "Planet of the Apes" a fictional weapon of the protagonist visually nearly identical to the laser gun (shoots but flying with a relatively low rate of energy blobs that looked like plasmoids ) [5] .
   In science-fiction novel by Sergei Lukyanenko , " Stars - cold toys "( 1997 ) contains developed by Russian or Soviet scientists, laser gun, which uses disposable cartridges, capacitors, contained in a holder and emitted as spent cartridges after each shot.

The laser gun with a pyrotechnic flash lamp
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At the top left and continuing clockwise: the laser gun, laser gun, fiber optic active element.
Type: Non-lethal weapons , laser weapons
Country: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR
The history of
Designer : The design team, headed by VS Sulakvelidze
Developed by: 1984
Manufacturer: Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces
Years of production: Commercially produced no
Total production: Unknown
Options: The laser gun, laser medical
Features
Weight, kg: Is unknown, close to the mass army of gunshot samples
Length, mm: ≈ 180 [1]
Patron : Disposable pyrotechnic flashlamps special production
Caliber , mm: 10 (the diameter of the flash lamp)
Principles of operation : Optical pumping of the laser
Rate ,
rds / min: Semi-automatic fire
Muzzle velocity , m / s : 299 792 458
Sighting range , m: 20
Feed system : Shop for 8 rounds
Sight : Open
Nuvola apps kview.svg External Images
Searchtool.svg A full-scale illustration of a laser gun

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I've worked on many lasers for several decades now and while chemical lasers are not my expertise, I have to say, I doubt the device shown works completely as that describes.   While optical pumps can be initiated by chemical reaction, I seriously doubt the ability to contain the reaction, and expect combustion products would contaminate the optics almost immediately.  What wavelength was to come out and why?   Overall also can't see the need to develop a "ray gun" that could inadvertently burn a hole  catastrophically through needed equipment, or more likely to blind someone from even scattered beam.  

A chemical reaction of that nature seems volatile and dangerous - at least the risk of accidental chemical fire would be far to risky to put aboard a very valuable spacecraft - And for what value? What do you need a gun in space for?  What do you need a ray gun in space for?  If it did work - why have no industrial purposes come of it? Cutting laser would sure be handier than carrying tanks for oxy-acetylene cutting?

The US air force and NRO did studies of a firearms ability to perform in space borne environments including spacelike vacuum chambers -.  If I can recall, it was determined that a basic revolver could function in space and that a ammunition cartridge would carry enough self-contained oxygen in a case to allow positive ignition.  You got to love a country that pays for that kind of science ( : )  ) Overall though - Guns in space are not a practical idea - what would the use be - I think the Russians have employed guns on board many missions - but mostly as a survival guin that used traditional cartridges - I have a Finnish book on Russian guns that shows a picture of a cosmonaut survival gun. That is far more practical than a highly volatile (perhaps explosive) - single shot laser pistol.


Officially I believe the US says  there has been no guns in  use in US space missions, although I think its been rumored that revolvers were covertly stashed on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).  Since revolvers would work in space, I find it hard to beleive the Russians went to work on a ray gun - after all thier answer to a space pen was to use pencils - I don't see them rushing to build a laser

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I was thinking about that while reading your post.

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Why go through all the hype when regular guns would work just fine?

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Because it's the nature of various governmental research and development agencies to research and develop everything, even if it doesn't have an immediate practical advantage over preexisting technology.



Everyone is focused on the obvious "just use a revolver" salient, while ignoring the fact that the USSR certainly had the resources to waste on random small-scale research projects like a prototype laser pistol.  It seems completely plausible that someone might have commissioned a project like that, led it to produce a working demo model or two, and then been abandoned after as unworkable.  We've certainly built plenty of idiotic firearms in the past that served no practical purpose, save to be able to say that we'd tried that particular concept and found it lacking.