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Couldn't someone just hand-load a different bullet into the same base cartridge? In the worst case scenario, swap out the barrel for one that can handle the st
by logfromblammo 7y ago
Couldn't someone just hand-load a different bullet into the same base cartridge? In the worst case scenario, swap out the barrel for one that can handle the standard rounds?
- sdenton4 7y ago...or just start handing out newer, lighter automatic pistols, and save yourself some flight weight and an occasional maintenance headache.
- technothrasher 7y agoThey were already using lighter weight Makarov pistols before the TP-82, and switched to the combo gun after some cosmonauts spent the night in the Siberian wilderness and thought a small semi-auto pistol wasn't enough. But, yeah, running out of qualified ammo likely just supplied the impetus to re-evaluate the necessity of the TP-82. More interesting is the laser pistol the USSR attempted to design for cosmonauts to carry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
- logfromblammo 7y agoBut the laser gun was for blinding satellite cameras, not fending off Siberian bears.
- technothrasher 7y agoTrue, but still fun, and still pretty much useless for either job.