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The possibility of returning firearms to set of equipment for astronauts. This measure is under consideration. specialists in the framework of the flight planned for 2025 transport ship “Eagle”.
Firearms used to be part of the astronaut’s equipment since the first flight of Yuri Gagarin. First gunshot the weapon that visited the Earth’s orbit was a gun Makarova.
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Of course, no one assumed that the astronauts would fight with an extraterrestrial adversary, but on landing it’s hard to say where can be. For example, as happened in 1965 during emergency landing A. Leonov and P. Belyaev in the taiga, where the astronauts stayed for about three days. After that, they developed for the astronauts special three-barrel TP-82.
Since 2007, the production of special cartridges has been discontinued, and the production line was closed.
Earlier ESOREITER talked about a unique pistol, specially designed for astronauts.
Andrey Vetrov
