Shotgun Kept In Space Station

[Maxwell]

The shotgun isn't kept in the ISS, it is stowed, unloaded, in the Soyuz up/down vehicle.

I would dare say 90% of weapons are kept the same way in America. In its storage box, unloaded, in the closet or a drawer.

What I find amusing out of all this is that russia and nasa have never exactly been rkba fans, they are also alarmingly weight conscious. Yet one sees the need to be ready "just in case" while the other lets it slide despite the non-pc nature of guns in space.

 

[Stiletto Null]

The Mosin bolt tool makes a wonderful Mauser took, too.

TOO BAD THE FRONT BARREL BAND ON MY M48A IS TOO TIGHT!!!

***

Uhh...right.

Recoil impulse on a .45ACP: about 3.9N·s. P = mv, so given P = 3.9N·s and m for an astronaut will be around 60kg, that gives a v of about...0.065m/s. 6.5cm/s, or about 2.5in/s.

That's not exactly "bouncing off the walls" speed.

Also, shotguns wouldn't pattern at 3LY, both because their shot cups wouldn't open up and because they wouldn't reach escape velocity. Fired on a tangent trajectory, maybe a really fast round (.22-250?) could break out of Earth's gravity well, but it still wouldn't make it out of the solar system.

Space is BIG, guys.

 

[Tankcommander]

Remember Nasa spent a fortune to develop a pen that writes in 0-gee.
The Russians brought a pencil.

With all the problems that are looming with space junk what will happen with all the buckshot in orbit from all the skeet shooting. or do you use earth as you back stop.

TC

 

[ABTOMAT]

NASA used pencils and the space pen was developed privately. When it was ready, they called up both the US and Russians and sold a ton to each.

 

[Onmilo]

I can envision some astronaut firing the rifle barrel and having the recoil break that spiffy buttplate/blade protector on the machete/buttstock which could cause a fairly nasty wound.

 

[cordex]

Onmilo,

I can envision some astronaut firing the rifle barrel and having the recoil break that spiffy buttplate/blade protector on the machete/buttstock which could cause a fairly nasty wound.

Is feature!
Tink ... Yuri and Boris stranded in vilderness. Boris has foot gnawed half off by rabid volf. Both are veak from lack of food and exaustion. How to amputate foot, eh? Take protector off and use two loads of 20 gauge, that's how!

 

[thorazine]

I always wondered how bad it would smell if you farted in your spacesuit.

 

[Willo]

=P

dude that russian space gun is cool but it needs some rails so they can tac it out.

 

[Brass Fetcher]

+1 on the Russian engineering.

Despite the gawdy looks (to some) of some of their equipment, what is of first importance is "did it work?" I think this is where the primary difference between the US and the Eastern Bloc (and most of the rest of the world) arise : we have had a condition of general peace (no invasions of the US) and great prosperity for the last 150 years, the Former Soviet Union countries have been subjected to war and hard economic times for most of this time period. Like they say, adversity is the best teacher, and I think that much can be learned from the Eastern bloc example(s).

 

[KC&97TA]

We need to put a M16/M41 on the moon, and it definetly needs surefire and ACOG on it; so that both companies will be able to run ads in the guns mags bragging

 

[Willo]

0.0" of bullet drop at 6 billion miles!

 

[k_semler]

*** they need a shotgun in OUTER SPACE for? Afraid of the Aliens, (not the ones walking across the US/Mex border), or something? If they can travel LIGHTYEARS to invade earth, I don't think a 14" shotgun is going to be of much use there. :banghead:

 

[Stiletto Null]

In space? They don't.

The problem is that sometimes they land in bear or wolf country.

 

[snafu_72]

When I trained as a SSDG (Space-Shuttle Door Gunner) we were issued one of these as a back up weapon in case our lithium-hydroxide powered, laser-range finder, heat-seeking, recoil-buffered double-barreled plasma cannon/shotgun and Pez dispenser went down with a bad case of the the wobblies.

 

[Beachmaster]

We need to put a M16/M41 on the moon

Don't think we didn't test a weapon on the moon!

 

[jerkyman45]

Neil Armstrong went hunting on the moon. The carcas he brought back was resurected and is now Hillary Clinton.