TP-82 Soviet survival gun designed for cosmonauts: The Russian Soyuz Space capsule usually has weapo
TP-82 Soviet survival gun designed for cosmonauts: The Russian Soyuz Space capsule usually has weapons in its survival kit to protect astronauts from wild animals-especially bears–if it happened to land in remote forest regions, such as Siberia. The three barrel, two-over/one-under TP-82 gun was developed specifically for the Soyuz program. One barrel is for shooting cartridges, one is for firing shotgun shells, and the third to fire flares, and the removable stock can be used as a machete. The initiator and one of the participants in its development was cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first spacewalker, who once were stranded in a remote forest for days after landing. From 1982 until 2006, cosmonauts always carried a TP-82 into space-even to ISS–hidden in the Soyuz Portable Emergency-Survival Kit. http://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-list-of-weapons-astronauts-have-carried-in-1768199454 -- source link
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