TP-82

TP-82
TP-82 in Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg
Type	Combination gun
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	1986–2006
Production history
Designer	Igor Aleksandrovich Skrylev
Specifications
Mass	2.4 kg (with stock)
Cartridge	5.45×39mm (below) and 12.5×70 shotgun shells (above)
Barrels	3
Effective firing range	200 meters
Feed system	Break-open
Sights	Iron

The TP-82 pistol (Russian: ТП-82) was a triple-barreled Soviet firearm that was carried by cosmonauts on space missions.

It was intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness. The upper two smoothbore barrels used 12.5×70 mm ammunition (40 gauge), and the lower rifled barrel used 5.45×39mm ammunition. The pistol could be used for hunting, to defend against predators and for visible and audible distress signals. The detachable buttstock was also a machete that came with a canvas sheath.

TP-82s were carried regularly on Soviet and Russian space missions from 1986 to 2006. They were part of the Soyuz Portable Emergency-Survival Kit (Носимый аварийный запас, Nosimyi Avariynyi Zapas, NAZ). In 2007, the media reported that the remaining ammunition for the TP-82 had become unusable and that a regular semi-automatic pistol would be used on future missions.

See also

• Soviet laser pistol
• Combination gun
• M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon
• M30 Luftwaffe drilling
• List of multiple barrel firearms
• List of Russian weaponry

References

• Bonnie Malkin and agencies (October 11, 2007). "Russians blast off without space pistol". Daily Telegraph.

External links

• Russia has the corner on guns in space - MSNBC, updated 2:09 p.m. PT, Tues., Feb. 12, 2008
• TP-82 : Russian space pistol / shotgun / carbine / flare gun no longer being carried into space (with photos) - The Firearm Blog
• Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun into space