Posted: 1/4/2011 8:13:24 AM EDT
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Weapons for use in space, just in case?
Yes, I am serious... 
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Weapons for use in space, just in case? Yes, I am serious... Some claim that there have been some developed. I would suggest that those developments, if they exist, would be classified information. $billions have been invested in the development of SDI or Star Wars defensive weapons. Some of those, if they exist, may be orbital based, but again, would not be open for public view. |
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The Soviets planned ahead:
http://space.au.af.mil/books/oberg/ch02.pdf By late 1998, enough hearsay evidence had been gathered to
convince some space historians that the Soviets installed a defensive cannon on one of their early space stations, the Salyut-3 military reconnaissance vehicle, launched in 1974. According to published accounts, reportedly confirmed by the spacecraft commander, Pavel Popovich, the station carried a modified Soviet jet interceptor cannon. It was a Nudelman-Rikhter “Vulkan” gun, similar to models installed on the Mig-19, Mig-21, and the Sukhoi-7. The Soviet weapon was installed to defend against manned or unmanned American interceptor spacecraft approaching Salyut 3. The gun was fixed along the station's long axis and aimed by turning the station, guided by a sighting screen at the station control post. At ranges of less than a kilometer it could have been highly effective, as long as it was not fired crosswise to the station’s orbital motion, in which case orbital mechanics would have brought the bullets back to the station within one orbit! Specifications for the 30 mm version of this cannon are a length of about 2 meters, weight of 66.5 kg, 900 rounds per minute rate of fire, developing a muzzle velocity of 780 m/sec for a projectile mass of 410 grams. There is also a 23 mm version weighing about 40 kg. It is not clear which of the two was on the Salyut 3 space station, but in the late 1960s the Soviets did design (but never built) an “attack Soyuz” manned spacecraft carrying the 23 mm gun. Several sources confirm that after the last crew left the Salyut-3 station, the cannon was test fired to depletion via remote control. |
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Dave Chappelle as Black Bush- "United States of Space bitches!" Remember that if you fire a gun in space it is a silenced weapon and needs a $200 stamp 
Also you will be sent in the opposite direction, damn you newton! Damn you straight to hell! Uh, the same thing happens on earth. The bullet just has alot less mass than you. And on earth, you can plant your feet and brace yourself. |
