Talk:Rikhter R-23

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Space

Are there any proper sources that this weapon was deployed in Earth orbit? --John (talk) 21:21, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• A rear turret of a Tu-22 equipped with a Canon R-23.jpg

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Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 / Rikhter R-23

There is another Wikipedia entry that seems to describe the same weapon : Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 L'amateur d'aéroplanes (talk) 09:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested merge

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 seems to describe the same weapon. Propose merging this and the aformentioned article into Nudelman–Rikhter NR-23 (with an en dash) instead of a hyphen-minus in the title). 192.52.240.207 (talk) 22:23, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This has been brought up before, the articles are absolutely not describing the same weapon. The R-23 and NR-23 are different weapons that only share a principal designer (one of two for the NR-23) and their calibre. They were introduced in different decades, used on different aircraft, operated based on entirely different principles and are visually very distinct.

The article for the R-23 even explicitly gives the undesirable length of the NR-23 in the tail gun role as a reason behind the development of the R-23. 77.97.205.194 (talk) 00:54, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]