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I have the exact same book. MiG Pilot Survival: Russian Aircrew Survival Equipment and Instruction by Alan R. Wise (1996 Schiffer Military History Books).

Then again, that page links here, which has a small photo of a TP-82, so perhaps my book is a bit out of date.

Really, Russian tech is all about reuse of existing stuff that works. There isn’t a military-industrial complex around to push for cutting edge stuff. The Makarov works, so why bother cooking up something new?

I’ll try to take a photo of that book page and post it.

(Oh and +1 on existingthing’s comment)

NASA uses 1/2 atmosphere of O2.

A few button presses would decompress or otherwise doom the entire crew and or station, and everyone’s freaking out about a gun causing hallways of the space station to run red with blood.

“At the last moment I ordered most of
this food to be replaced with extra ammunition for my pistol. Much better to carry more
cartridges for self-defense, in case our spacecraft landed in an area with wild animals.”

From ‘Two sides of the moon’ by Leonov and astronaut dave Scott

The atmosphere in a spacecraft is usually 100% O2, (aside from the CO2 and other gases emitted by the occupants) but it’s only at 5psi – the same partial-pressure it is here on Earth. The danger of fire is no worse than it is here.

The problem with a pure O2 atmosphere comes when you do it here at the normal atmospheric pressure of 15 PSI or so.

I watched the same NOVA episode.

I mean, couldn’t it be hazardous/combustible to pop off a round in there? Not to mention decompression.

Also, the stock consisted of the sheath to the machete (!!!) in the survival kit. Just included in case there was a need to chop some sugar cane, I guess….

if the Apollo missed its mark, the U.S. Navy got to make best speed for wherever the silly NASA boys came down this time, pick ‘em up a little behind schedule; they had life rafts and suchlike, no biggie. if the Soyuz missed its mark, it could have come down in Siberia or wherever. the cosmonauts might’ve been on their own with the wolves and bears until the soviet air force managed to spot them. survival rifles could be really useful — i don’t know if they’ve ever actually been used for anything, but i sure wouldn’t take a return trip to “someplace in central Russia, pick you up just as soon as we can” without one.

Regardless, the Soviet gun was intended to shoot down enemy satellites which got to close. The gun was never fired with men on board, but it was fired remotely in order to test the station’s ability to

’scuse me while I go change out my drawers; little messy.