Talk:AN-94

Pribor-3B Rifle Relation?
Is it possible the Pribor-3B Rifle led to the AN-94 Abakan?, Just asking becouse it uses a similar recoil/gas system.

User:Jetwave Dave 14 May 2007, 19:36PM

Why is there a 'disadvantages' section but not an 'advantages' section? This seems rather odd for such a revolutionary rifle and does not seem to fit into Wikipedia's guidelines.

The Abakan was NEVER officially declared anything like successor and/or replacement to the AK family as the primary infantry weapon...
Actually it's quite surprising to read such things as:

''"The Russian Government formally declared the AN-94 to be the successor & replacement to the legendary Kalashnikov series of rifles following the Abakan advanced assault rifle trials in The USSR throughout the 1980s."

"The Nikonov AN-94 was commissioned for general issue to the Soviet (now Russian) armed forces, with mass production scheduled at the traditional home of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the historic Izhmash state factories."''

The weapon is far too complicated for the regular army (often called "the most complicated AR ever created", cant say how accurate this statement is), and it's only (very doubtfull) advantage is that unique 2-shot burst fire mode, which (theoretically) lets the shooter to hit one point with two bullets. There is no serious improvement in semiautomatic or fully-automaitc fire accuracy over Kalashnikov's design, however, and, as people say, AR is not a woodpecker, it's not designed to hit one point constantly to drill holes, so the ability to hit one point with 2 bullets is fancy but not very usefull for any practical purposes. 7.62 mm AK did just the same thing with 1 heaviar bullet.

I've never heard of anyone calling it an official successor to the AK family, neither about any plans to mass-produce it, and I have very serious doubts it will ever be produced in quantities large enough to call that "mass production".

The initial idea of the ABAKAN programme really was to create an accurate automatic weapon suitable for inexperienced shooters from Army's reserve, to be used in a case of a massive military conflict in Europe. With such a weapon, it was thought, they would be able to equal more trained soldiers from Western (professional) armies. Quite the contrary, it's resulting weapon - the AN-94 - is so complicated that it can only be used by high grade professionals, making it unsuitable for the role of primary infantry weapon, especially in Russia's "people's" army.

Currently the entire programme is usually seen as a tragic lost of time and money. AN-94 really was officially accepted by the Army in the 1990s (under very suspicious circumstances - some of the Comission's members are now stating that if it was up to them, they would've never let it happen), but currenly is not in production (and as I believe never will be again), only several maybe thousands were produced. I think it's worth saing in the article that it is not, was never thought to be and isn't gonna be the "standard issue" weapon for the Russian army (or any other military force), and is most likely to be demonstrated in the Kunstkamera along with other uglies in the future, as an example of military bureaucracy's idiotism )))

DL24 (talk) 18:28, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that this article has no sources whatsoever, so whatever is added, tends to stick because standards for the info admitted is so low. There was a list of sources, but it was deleted because it was improperly formatted -- No way to tell what info was supported by which source, and the sources were in Russian, and not linked. Eik Corell (talk) 18:40, 17 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Well I know at least one source in English, its a web site but it is usually considered to be quite reliable and accurate. And actually it's author's P.O.V. is quite similar with my own. However, unfortunately I don't feel I'm that good in English to re-write the whole article from ground zero, even with this reference... DL24 (talk) 16:01, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

edited the successor/replacement paragraph.. it has not yet replaced the AK-74 and may never
Even the website originally provided as a reference (at least as of December 29, 2011 when I looked) also never says it is the general issue weapon. In fact it says because it is too expensive and complex that it hasn't gone into general issue or gone into full production. I also found a book reference that concurs with this. I changed the article to reflect this information and added an inline citation to the book as additional reference. The rest of the original article as I read it on this date appears to be at the least mostly correct if not completely. I concentrated mostly on this particular issue. However on a cursory review the remainder of the article looks OK. Theshowmecanuck (talk) 13:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

The review added to external links
On the one hand, it contains a hell of a lot of insight and pictures of the internal workings of the weapon, but on the other hand, on the other hand, even though it's a review, it's still a forum thread. Per WP:ELNO #10 and 11, too, this would seem to disqualify it; The author is not a recognized authority, and it is a forum post. I'm not really sure to be honest. Eik Corell (talk) 01:11, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The source of the text is an anonymous forum member. Even the pictures are anonymous uploads to Imageshack. The link is interesting and it's especially informative for a forum post, but it definitely isn't suitable for external links here. ROG5728 (talk) 01:40, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Modern AK-47
Is this gun just a more modern rendition of the AK-47? The reason I ask is because it says "Origin: Russia" not USSR. SweetShawn999 (talk) 20:39, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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An-94 ( 7.62x39mm )
Rare prototype for 7.62x39mm 2605:B100:51D:CC13:A891:7676:D7E5:5E75 (talk) 14:32, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

AN94 In Use with Kyrgyzstan SOF
There are a few photos floating around with the AN94 being used by Kyrgyzstan special forces. I'm not sure if there is an article containing info along with the photo, but I have a photo that clearly shows the Kyrgyzstan patch on the soldier's arm. 68.170.121.91 (talk) 03:34, 5 June 2022 (UTC)