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Salyut 3 and the Soviet space cannon, when the USSR tested a gun in orbit during the Cold War space race

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched military space stations under the Almaz program, some even armed with a cannon designed to defend against hostile spacecraft. In 1975, one of ...
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The space race begins as superpowers turn toward orbit

Early Cold War experiments like Project Diana showed that space could become a new arena of global power competition. As the ...