TOZ-81 Mars prototype Soviet revolver developed for Soviet cosmonauts as a survival weapon pic.twitter.com/dtmGozwGkt
— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) October 1, 2020
So, among the internet flotsam that's bobbed past my vantage point recently was a picture of a failed proposal for a Soviet-era cosmonaut survival pistol, the TOZ-81...
It's a top-break bullpup .410 shotgun revolver that fires from the bottom chamber. It's like a Voltron of goofy internet gun dork obsessions.