Fortunately, the Soviet Union was large enough and the largest in the world, otherwise the "Ascension-2" ground command center almost decided to let two astronauts die in space!

I'm afraid that the spaceship will fall into the hands of other countries!

Don't doubt that at the height of the Cold War, countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain sacrificed the lives of some of their own people to protect state secrets, whether it was the Warsaw Pact or NATO.

Imagine that at that time space technology was just beginning, there was a problem with the automatic return system, and the use of manually operated systems had only a theoretical success rate.

What's even more troublesome is that even if the spacecraft is successfully manually maneuvered back to Earth, the spacecraft may be thousands of kilometers away from the "aiming" landing site, and God knows where it will fly in the end!

At that time, most of the Soviet spacecraft avoided the United States and China, and even avoided Western Europe and South America, the backyard of the United States, but could not avoid central Africa and the Near East.

In addition to the huge longitudinal distance difference caused by manually manipulating the spacecraft to land, the lateral angle may be deviated, and it will be really hilarious if it falls on the territory of the United States or China: 1965, that year was no joke!

On both sides of the Iron Curtain, only three years have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the United States and the Soviet Union are fighting with bayonets in all aspects, especially in the high-tech field.

As for the Asian continent, the Soviet Union engaged in a million soldiers, and on the other hand, in order to guard against this fierce giant neighbor in the north, it pressed at least more than 2 million troops in the northern region!

The reason why the proportion of soldiers in Xiang Weirong's generation is so high is basically because of the Soviet Union, a giant that makes trouble, and its threat is not comparable to that of the United States across the Pacific Ocean.

For China, the United States is really a paper tiger compared to the threat of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, that's a literally cannibalistic Siberian brown bear!

In those years, Maozi's armored cluster impact power was absolutely the first in the world, and Western Europe, where the terrain was flat, could not stop it, and probably only the first and second line defense and the third line counterattack in China could withstand it.

In such an international environment, the "Ascension-2" was forced to return to Earth by manual means, and once it flew to those countries that were "unfriendly" to the Soviet Union, the lives of the astronauts were unlikely to be in question, but the technology of the spacecraft's return capsule would be completely leaked.

The ground commander of the "Ascension-2" agreed that the two astronauts would manually manipulate the spacecraft back to Earth, which was really a great risk.

After people die, there are astronauts waiting in line to go to space, but the spacecraft technology can't be leaked!

Fortunately, Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev were lucky, the latter was skilled in maneuvering the spaceship, and their homeland was large enough, and they finally returned to Earth alive.

But...

A group of people stood quietly by the two rows of convoys in the wilderness, not only the people brought by Zhang Nan, but also many staff at the spacecraft landing site, and the most conspicuous were two ambulances.

A communications vehicle kept transmitting news about the latest status of the spacecraft relayed by the command center dozens of kilometers away, large observation telescopes were always ready, and three Mi-8 helicopters that could take off at any time were parked not far away, and everything was ready.

Charlie was worried that Guan Xingquan would fly to Siberia, but she was knocked on the head by Zhang Nan, and she felt a little unhappy, feeling that it would be better to stay away from her brother, who was a little too nervous and a little superstitious.

Well, it seems that it is more reliable to stand next to his brother-in-law Xiang Weirong.

Charlize Theron consciously came to Xiang Weirong's side, not thinking that Xiang Jiannan was also worried about this problem.

Just now he heard Charlize Theron's words, and he was whispering to his father: "Dad, I read in the book that it was 30 years ago when the spacecraft fell into the Siberian forest, and the two astronauts almost let the wolf eat it."

Russia is so big, and many of it is no man's land, in case Uncle Guan falls into the old forest, there will be no problem, right?"

At the age of 13, he is still a child, and it is normal to have such worries - not to mention Siberia, there are wild wolves in the area near the landing site.

The land is vast and sparsely populated.

Xiang Weirong patted his son on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry about your Uncle Guan, as long as he reaches the ground, even if he falls into the Amazon, he will definitely come back alive." ”

Xiang Weirong was very confident, "Don't talk about a few wolves, even if you run into a brown bear, he will probably be able to roast that guy and eat it, and by the way, he will get you a bearskin coat back." ”

The vast majority of children have absolute trust in their fathers and can do anything, Xiang Jiannan is like this, not to mention that he grew up listening to Guan Xingquan's stories since he was a child.

Letter!

The children didn't ask the astronauts about whether they would be weak for a short time because of gravity once they returned to Earth: they weren't stupid, and if they fell into a corner, they would have to regain some strength to get out of the capsule.

This will be Boss Guan, who has already entered the return track, and they really don't worry about losing Siberia, not only because Boss Guan's personal combat effectiveness is bursting, but also because they brought guns and machetes!

The Soviet cosmonauts with guns all started with the accident of the "Asscent-2": that time, Leonov and Belyaev found themselves falling into a snowy primeval forest, an absolutely large area of no man's land.

There are wolves nearby, and they are frozen half to death, and they can't even enter the return capsule to hide from the wind and snow: the air conditioning system that resists the scorching high temperature of the return atmosphere is really reliable, and it is actually running at this time, the battery quality is too good, and there is electricity, and it is even worse that it can't be turned off!

In the end, the two space heroes stayed up all night to be rescued, and almost died in the forest.

After this incident, the Soviets believed that the astronauts needed a compact and versatile weapon that could be used to hunt and defend against predators, and to send distress signals to wait for rescuers to arrive.

After the Ascent 2 mission, the Soviet Union equipped the cosmonauts with a Makarov pistol, but it was a standard weapon of the Soviet army and did not fully meet the special requirements of cosmonauts.

Ordinary astronauts are not Guan Xingquan, and they can't hit rabbits with pistols, let alone brown bears.

In 1982, the Tula Arsenal developed a special sidearm for astronauts, which was officially installed in 1986, and it was the TP-82 pistol that Guan Xingquan and his family carried.

It's not just a gun, this thing also comes with an additional butt similar to a box cannon, but the additional butt is not a gun box, it's actually a triangular machete with a slightly strange handle shape, but huge lethality.

Wait, wait quietly, and hear the commander's report before the ship enters the black barrier.

After that, it felt like a super long communication interruption, and suddenly... The messenger let out a cheer, "Restore communication, everything is normal, guide the parachute..."

At the same time, the observation telescope also captured the target: it was judged that the landing site was about 20 kilometers to the west.

Regardless of the difficulty of being three feet above the ground, Zhang Nan trotted towards the nearest helicopter.