The Space Cannon that was Actually Fired in Orbit

Rindfleisch
Published on May 17, 2021
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In July of 1974, the USSR fired the first and only cannon to be shot into space. Haunted by fears of U.S. spacecraft inspecting or attacking Soviet spaceships and satellites, the R-23M Kartech 23-millimeter cannon had been secretly installed on the Salyut-3 as part of Project Almazâ€¦ a top-secret military space station program camouflaged in the cloak of civilian space exploration. Fully armed and operational, the space weapon would remain one of the worldâ€™s most closely guarded secrets until the fall of the Soviet Unionâ€¦

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