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Today I learned ...
Nov. 11th, 2019 10:33 pm... that historically, for geographical reasons, Russian space capsules typically crashed down in the Siberian wilderness, instead of the ocean as is typical for US ones. The Siberian wilderness is full of BEARS. So not only do Russian cosmonauts carry guns into space, but until 2007 (or so) they carried this absolutely insane thing called the TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol.
It's a triple-barrelled monster with two shotgun barrels and one rifle barrel, with a machete in the handle.
It was added to cosmonaut survival gear due to lobbying efforts by Alexei Leonov, whose return after his famous spacewalk landed a couple hundred miles off course in the middle of bear-infested nowhere. At the time, cosmonauts were armed with a 9mm pistol, which is useless against bears. ("Leonov later commented on the possibility of the gun: "All that could be done with the help of "Makarova" [the Makarov pistol] - is to shoot himself.")
Hence the triple-barreled MACHETE SHOTGUN RIFLE, for all your Siberian wilderness survival needs.
It's a triple-barrelled monster with two shotgun barrels and one rifle barrel, with a machete in the handle.
It was added to cosmonaut survival gear due to lobbying efforts by Alexei Leonov, whose return after his famous spacewalk landed a couple hundred miles off course in the middle of bear-infested nowhere. At the time, cosmonauts were armed with a 9mm pistol, which is useless against bears. ("Leonov later commented on the possibility of the gun: "All that could be done with the help of "Makarova" [the Makarov pistol] - is to shoot himself.")
Hence the triple-barreled MACHETE SHOTGUN RIFLE, for all your Siberian wilderness survival needs.
