Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(3/7) Their capsule came down deep in the Siberian wilderness. A place where wolves and brown bears prowl. Rescue by helicopter would take two days. 170
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(4/7) Leonov later realised something unsettling. The small Makarov pistol in their survival kit wouldn’t have stopped a bear. So the Soviets upgraded. Image: NASA 140
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(5/7) From 1986 to 2006, Soyuz capsules carried a triple-barrelled survival gun: the TP-82. The lower barrel fired the same ammunition as an AK-47. 150
