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What was the gun for?

• krapp 4mo ago
  Shooting American spacecraft. What else would it be for?
  • necovek 4mo ago
    If it made pew-pew sounds (inside the station, obv), mission accomplished regardless of it actually being able to shoot anything down, up or everywhere.
    • krapp 4mo ago
      The story that I read somewhere was that it was tested once but the recoil either damaged the station or it would have affected its orbit so they never tried it again. There was also Polyus which was going to be an entire battle station designed to counter Reagan's SDI satellites[0], but it never made it into orbit. It had lasers, though. [0]https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-rise-fall-the-soviet-death-star-14854 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-rise-fall-the-sovie...
      • necovek 4mo ago
        If that test round of bullets came out at 1000m/s, I wonder where are they now? They'd cover around 1.5 billion km (<1 billion miles), and be past Saturn's orbit if fired away from the Sun. But it would not achieve escape velocity on its own, and the station was obviously moving relative to Sun and Earth, so we'd have to account for it too.