Space Guns and Military Space Stations

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Since the US had conquered space in the 1950s next step was Moon Bases and Prototype Guns that worked in a Vacuum. A new declassified report has drawings of these yokes,





Theirs more here...aswell as a link to an Article about the Ithacus Reusable Rocket ship (it's never been mentioned in this Forum before) that was meant to get Jetpacked troops anywhere in the world in an hour.

carried its oxidizer inside the vehicle. In addition, it had detachable hydrogen fuel tanks on the outside. This made the vehicle reusable.

In theory, 1,200 Marines would board the 20-story rocket and blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base or Cape Canaveral. They’d soar 120 miles into space, and land at their destinations in Asia, Africa or Europe within an hour.

But here's the best bit, the USSR had a Space Station called the Almaz (also never mentioned in here, I'm on a roll) that was part of the Salyut 3 Programme (OK this was mentioned a couple of times) that had this Cannon that they actually fired on Jan. 24, 1975!



This is a 3D image made up of screen grabs of all sides of the weapon taken from a grainy video shot by the Zvezda TV channel associated with the Russian Ministry of Defense. The space cannon episode was shot inside the limited-access corporate museum at KB Tochmash.

The results of the tests still remain classified.

Capt'n Midnight

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Why is that thing not recoiling when fired??



Things are heating up in Space - Satellite Wars

Military officials from the US, Europe and Asia spoken to by the Financial Times confirm in private what the Kettering Group and other amateur stargazers have been watching publicly. Almost every country with strategically important satellite constellations and its own launch facilities is considering how to defend — and weaponise — their extraterrestrial assets. “I don’t think there is a single G7 nation that isn’t now looking at space security as one of its highest military priorities and areas of strategic concern,” says one senior European intelligence official.

“The threat is increasing and this is a major concern,” says Frank Rose, US assistant secretary of state for arms control. “Both Russia and China are developing ASAT [anti-satellite weapon] capabilities to hold US systems at risk. Now, we don’t believe it’s in anyone’s interest to engage in a space arms race . . . We don’t want conflict in outer space. But be assured, we will be able to operate in a degraded space environment. We’ve made it clear that we will do what is necessary to protect the space assets of the US and our allies against potential attack.”



And China and the US (who else) have now set up their own big red phones to help prevent orbital mishaps and misunderstandings from leading to conflicts.

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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfcCsP-T1pc

Keplar240B

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Why is that thing not recoiling when fired??



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Its a recoilless rifle

A recoilless rifle (RCLR) or recoilless gun is a type of lightweight tube artillery that is designed to allow some of the propellant gases to escape out the rear of the weapon at the moment of ignition, creating forward thrust that counteracts some of the weapon's recoil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle