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 0
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 0
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(6/7) It could fire signal flares. The detachable buttstock doubled as a machete and shovel. Early ISS crews trained with it. NASA astronaut Jim Voss recalled hurling wine, beer and vodka bottles 20–30 metres off a ship and using them for target practice. 170 0
