This means that upon impact, the bullet expands and tumbles, causing significant internal damage. Although the same caliber as the AK-74, SP-P rounds contained soft points. The belt contained 11 rounds of SP-P 5.45–b圓9 ammunition for the rifle barrel. The Granat-6 portable survival kit came with a belt, a holster for the weapon and three kinds of ammunition. But the manual action and simple mechanical selection prevented jams in the harsh conditions of the cold, damp, sub-arctic forests of the taiga. This last barrel fired 5.45-by-39-millimeter rifle cartridges. A vertical thumb-switch shifted the left hammer between the second smoothbore barrel and a rifle barrel underneath. The right hammer fired a 12.5-by-70-millimeter shotgun shell out of a smoothbore barrel. The gun had three barrels and two hammers. Shooting this combination pistol took more effort than most firearms. At top - the TP-82 at the Saint Petersburg Artillery Museum. Above-the TP-82 depicted in an unidentified Russian manual. It was good for hunting small game, while packing a big enough punch to deter a 1,000-pound brown bear. It was essentially a sawed-off, double-barreled shotgun with a short-barreled rifle added onto it. Leonov’s lobbying efforts culminated in the TP-82. Later in his career, he made sure the Soviet military provided all its cosmonauts with a survival weapon. He feared the bears and wolves that prowled the forest-though he never encountered any. In March 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov landed a mechanically-faulty Voskhod space capsule in the snowy forests of the western Urals … 600 miles from his planned landing site.įor protection, Leonov had a nine-millimeter pistol. UN says 2,106 Afghan civilians killed, wounded since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan July 20, 2022īiden, Senate effort would move proceeds from seized Russian oligarch assets to Ukrainian war effort July 20, 2022 ‘Chinese media does not even mention’ its talks with India over border dispute July 20, 2022 Two Russian submarines tracked by Royal Navy in the North Sea July 22, 2022Ĭhina deploys tanks to secure banks after personal savings accounts declared “investment products” of the state July 21, 2022ĬIA says Russia has lost 15,000 troops so far in Ukraine July 21, 2022 South Korea restarts joint military drills that were previously reduced to aid nuclear negotiations with North Korea July 22, 2022 Stephen King admits he was pranked by Russians’ pretending to be Ukrainian President Zelensky July 22, 2022 “You’ve never seen anything like this:” Muslim and Jew fight together against the Russians July 22, 2022 Are ongoing safety and training issues to blame? July 23, 2022 Military aviation crashes are again on the rise.