Rocket Surgery: Inside the Russian Nikonov AN94
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The AN-94 Nikonov is one of the recent series of innovative new small arms coming out of the Russian Federation. In this case, it is an attempt to increase hit probability by firing two rounds before the recoil impulse changes the shooter's point of aim - similar to some of the US SPIW project experimental rifles.
The Nikonov accomplishes this with a combined gas- and recoil-operated system, and a feed system with a third position between the magazine and chamber. When in 2-round-burst mode, it fires both rounds at about 1800 rpm. Normal fully automatic mode runs at a much more conventional 600 rpm, because the burst function can only work for two rounds successively before needing to reset. It functions by using a pulley and steel wire to use the rearward motion of the bolt on the first shot to pull a cartridge forward into position to feed while the internal receiver unit of the weapon is recoiling backwards. The second round fires as the receiver unit reaches full travel, and because the recoil is only felt by the shooter when the receiver unit hits its full rear position, this allows both rounds to already be downrange before the sights move. Contrary to popular myth, the pulley has nothing to do with balancing recoil forces in this rifle.
The AN94 is, of course, very complex and quite expensive. While it was officially adopted by the Russian military, it has not seen extensive service, and is certainly not being widely issued.
To see the video in Russian: • АН94 - Забытое Оружие
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The AN-94 actually comes with so many parts that, if needed in field conditions, a soldier can disassemble the weapon and rebuild it into a rope and pulley system, a little carriage for transportation, a howitzer, a ZIL truck, and a portable spirit distiller.
hahaha, this is some russian army joke?
The rope and pulley system is obviously to make a trebuchet.
dont forget the t-34
You forgot the part where it also forms into an intercontinental ballistic missile that also uses cartridges as fuel and then recycling the cartridge and loading a new bullet into it and repeating until it hits its destination. Very neat gun.
too lazy to check but ok
The gas piston operates a pulley mechanism, which in turn opens a little door, feeding a piece of lettuce into the hamster cage. The hamster then starts running on his wheel, which in turn cycles the next round into the chamber, achieving a 2 round burst.
I think I got the gist of it.
🤣
Yeah, this gun wasnt picked up by the soviets becauer troops kept stealing the lettuce from the gun
Hahahahha a lettuce jahahahahahha funny thing sir
Well, you forgot the partridges in the pear tree, but you got the essentials.
AK Rube Goldberg machine
"Is this gun even simple and rugged enough to count as a Russian weapon anymore?"
*The field stripping procedure begins with bashing it against things*
"Never mind, carry on."
XD
You made my morning, thank you.
dam
Best comment ever
This rifle is completely opposite of Russia, complicated and expensive
You know the gun is complicated when Ian names something a "thing" more than three times.
There were more things than I've seen in any other video. Mind you, he didn't disassemble as much of the G11. That has all the things!
@@Si74l0rd tbf the an94 has a big leap over the g11 in that it's an actual viable weapon of war.
The g11 never got to the point where you could reliably use it without it obliterating itself. For what it's worth the rube gold machine of a rifle did it's job properly.
Lmao. Great way of putting it.
@@parkerlong2658 Let’s get it right: it’s Rube Goldberg. Wikipedia if you need to.
@@samiam619 do I need to explain to you why your stupid.
Russians: *builds one of most complicated firearms known to man*
Also Russians:
*disassembly starts by slamming it against something*
Perkaholic I don’t care if it’s meme. If you are talking crap about others you will get that back at you.
@@patrick-xu1go well if "even Russians embrace that stereotype because it’s funny as hell" than why dont you laugh about the stereotype about americans eating a lot of junk food and being fat?
@Perkaholic I dont care about wars at all. And its really impossible to struck my nerve through internet.I dont take conversations in internet seriously.
But again all you can talk about is war. Your goverment brainwashed you well.
As someone who grew up in close vicinity of Red Army barracks, I can confirm that this is the official russian way to handle pretty much every kind of tech.
*laughs in vietnamese*
Notice he didn’t show putting it back together.
Ian never almost shows that
In accordance with UA-cam's rules on swearing, it was impossible to show, as it rated worse than an episode of the Sopranos staged entirely in the home kitchen.
@@scottcrawford3745 you tube has rules on swearing? Ha now that's funny. There's an analogy to the effectiveness of gun control in there somewhere.
@@NateHardman Agreed. Especially when you look at cities like Chicago and New York, or countries like England and the UK in general, where handguns are banned and firearms ownership is extremely restricted, yet they have among the highest per-capita gun deaths anywhere... Even here in Canada, where we have rigorous firearms legislation, and a recently VERY controversial added "assault-type weapons" ban , the firearms-related death tolls went up, not down. Because; It doesn't matter how Draconian your laws are, criminals don't obey laws. " Once all the guns are gone, Only the criminals will have guns...".
@@scottcrawford3745 the assault weapons ban isn’t really anything new. DMRs like the sks get a free pass but mini 14s Ar guns etc don’t.
As long as I can use 7.62/.308, 12 gauge or my 30-06 guns idgaf tbh. An sks is all you really need for medium distance home defense. Just gotta practice with iron sights.
They could've simplified the gun by removing that pulley system and replacing it with a track that a bowling ball rolls down, where it falls onto a seesaw, which launches a small plastic man into a bathtub, and the force of him landing in the tub actuates an arm that pulls up the next round.
Kifo I laughed so fucking hard.
It's proof that the US is not the only country to have absurd procurement disasters. I'd love to hear the full story of why this sounded like a good idea and how it got through the Russian military acceptance trials.
Loweko1170 Because it does something cool.
I'm fucking dying 😂
Mouse trap🤣
The AN stands for Armorer's Nightmare.
Version 94
This is a rifle I would not buy.
@@mitchwerbell4679 not like you could, ever
An 94 Means Avtomat Nikonova 1994
@@clarkmirkbell880 it's a joke
Pro: 2 round burst
Con: each squad has to carry a swiss clock smith to clean and maintain the guns.
Tactical clockmaker unlocked!!! Grandma Pelikenz: +5 maintaice Bonus!
@inönu how much you want to bet they keep the AK-74 until America develop something like a shoulder-mounted railgun and then they just copy that?
@@anarchyandempires5452 Theyll probably decide the railgun is too expensive to buy and maintain and continue to use the AK
@@2MeterLP ...and win.
@@vonSchwarzberg unlikely to happen
The gun has a pulley system.
_The gun has a fucking pulley system._
JustSomeGuy
in a pinch it can be used as a trebuchet.
Rube Goldberg would be proud.
Adi Dunn That comment.
I raise you a fucking pencil! The stock definitely needs a pommel for back up.
Next thing you now it will have a bottle opener on it... *WAIT*
You can start this video as a college dropout and finish it 17 minutes later with a masters degree in mechanical engineering.
James Harding ok who asked
@@0xSCMD who tf needs to ask, why do people need to ask to talk to people
@@0xSCMD hey chill lil guy
@@0xSCMD chill the dude was making a point
@@0xSCMD small-dick.
Mikhail Kalashnikov: "I have built the perfect rifle."
Gennadiy Nikonov: **snorts more russian coke** *"ADD A FUCKING PULLEY SYSTEM"*
If you think about it every gun is just an over complicated slingshot
@@guy2026 slingshot is just complicated throwing
Russian coke is just gravel.
@@bonogiamboni4830 Gravel mixed with krokidil (sp?)
@@extragoogleaccount6061 yes.
This weapon is very obviously Russian. It's basically a gun with a second smaller gun inside of it, just like _matryoshka_ Russian nesting dolls.
now imagine if they decide to go 3 round hyperburst.
Darklighter89 when they invent something like this they’ll be able to use light speed or teleportation
@@tsorevitch2409 That's basically an automatic Chiappa Triple Threat
just imagine 5.45 bullet inside 7.62 inside 12.7 in one cartrige
@@darklighter8968 It's gonna be like inception, a dream within a dream, but then that turns into dream within a dream within a dream...AN-94's successor will be an AN-94 inside a larger, even more complex AN-94.
Outside: Interesting, some kind of modernized AK?
Inside: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*
The AK's hormonal teenage years
on the outside it looks like an AK-74M that was reassembled by someone that vaguely knew what an AK looked like
Amazingly It's 4.7x harder to understand the workings of this than a HK G11. You see the outside and get totally tricked into thinking you're going to understand what comes next..
I imagine the outside being solid snake just talking calmly as usual, and the inside his death sound
This is why AN-94 used mostly by special forces, not regular army soldiers.
"Yo Dawg, I heard you like receivers, so I put a receiver in your receiver so you can shoot while you shoot!"
This is the best thing ever.
Never has this tired meme been more accurate.
Jaytopper Reviews omg 😂😂
Jaytopper Reviews LOL LOL LOL...
Hahahaha win win!
This is one of those aks that got left behind in Chernobyl it's grown another receiver and a pulley system
it has also somehow acquired polymer furniture
@@maximcerta1641 nah nah, that just a thick layer of radioactive dust covering the gun
So true, found it in stalker
+@@LordTrashcanRulez+ Get out of here S.T.A.L.K.E.R. !
1😂😂% Underrated comment
*wears white gloves so he doesn’t hurt the weapon*
*continues to smash the gun against the table*
I think he wore the gloves to avoid the metal dust getting on his hands. Might be wrong, though.
@@DexBuff I doubt he is that wimpy, you sure it's not just to avoid corrosion?
@@Devantejah Not sure how corrosion would occur from just the metal being touched by bare hands but I'm no expert in that kind of field so you might be right.
@@DexBuff yeah touching with bare hands is like dumping it in saltwater
Honestly I was thinking it was more of a fingerprint thing
"The key to disassembling this rifle is to smack it on the table a few times"
AK can be disassembled in literally a couple of seconds
Chung Lii That reminded me of the scene from the movie Armageddon, where the Russian guy starts hitting the controls with a wrench.
"Russian components, American components, they're all made in Taiwan!"
Russian engineering at its finest! _CYKA BLYAT_
"Comrade, My Nagant foresight is off to the left! How do we adjust the front sight?!"
"Simple Tovarisch, prop it up against that tree over there, we'll take turns kicking the sight post until it looks straight!"
no wonder this gun will never replace AK - you need a Master degree in mechanical engineering to carry one
it was in service for a short time used by special forces
Have to be a Certified cosmonaut to operate this rifle. 😂
Just like the G11
As a bachelor in mechanical engineering, I can attest. I’be got no clue how this thing works
@@shooteroffuture as a highschool dropout, I understand the operation completely. Do not confuse education with intelligence.
The Russians beat the Germans at their own game: Overengineering
German beat themself. Building gigantic tank mistake.
G11 says nein nein nein
@@KecapeBo Somewhat. Even though they could have won the battle at Kursk if Hitler hadn't have delayed reinforcements to get more of the the more advanced tigers in there and they could have 'possibly won', there was still the fact that the Americans and British Commonwealth were bombing the hell out of their cities and factories. It was a truly terrible time for the unfortunate ppl of Germany(I cannot possibly believe that they were all super hateful racists). But either way the bombing campaigns were so destructive that Germany lost most of their ability to produce arms thanks to it and on top of that their lack of fuel reserves at the time meant they were done already.
@@dorianlindberg1662 the number of racists in Germany was known. the German party introduced statistics meticulously.
and what about the tanks. tactics (a fire bag with a tank bait) of the USSR made it possible to destroy any armored targets. and it would be better for Germany to do more pz 4
@@KecapeBo source on said statistics, 5his sounds made up
Its not deactivated gun, guys. The sign "ММГ" actually means "Mass-Size mockup". it's made this way specially for disassembly training purposes. For deactivated guns we have a sign "СХП". Checkout carefully, if you off to buy one, as ММГ is usually not so high quality made.
схп это не деактивированное оружие.. если ммг это не деактеваты..
ибо ммг делаются путем деактивации вполне рабочих экземпляров.
к слову. схп работают. а ммг - нет.
@@Stormidze 9
@@Stormidze 0po
@@Stormidze 9
@@Stormidze 9
Russians: "This american AR system is too complicated"
Also Russians: create AN94
that never said that
LOL.
@@ERAUsnow . Ask Israelis, how AR worked there. And why they make Galil. Oh... Yeah.. Russian dude make Galil... (Or I'm mistaking)
Tolerance is good, when it's reasonable... ✌️✌️✌️
@@ERAUsnow . Yep. Don't sweat. I'm just screwing with you... 😜✌️✌️
I'm familiar with both. AR not complex, just manufacturing totally deferent. There is pluses and minuses with higher/lower tolerance.
@@alexk2418
It worked fantastic, they were just pissed about the prices. That's where the Tavor came in.They wanted something less maintenance than the FN FAL, cause their conscript soldiers were too dense to properly clean them and farted out during the 6 day & yom kippur war. So they contracted the Galil after they captured tons of AK47 in 67. They had the Galil as official rifle, but never issued to all soldiers, cause they got 60.000 M16 through the MAP from the US in 73 and the soldiers liked them mainly for the low weight and better precision and even more so when they got the M4, so they kept buying them on US credit.
Yeah your girl's cute, but can she explain the inner mechanics of an AN-94
No. No one besides Ian could quite possibly explain how the AN-94 works.
Now I'm picturing this russian scientist girl with a librarian look, holding an AN-94.
Yes
@@seyyers *boss music*
@@flamee23312 even Ian doesnt understand it 100%, there was only one human being, Nikinov himself, who could understand this mechanix, but he is dead now or may be he returned to his home planet, to much higher evolved civilisation
Saw the GarandThumb demo and figured I’d search Forgotten Weapons for an actual assessment. As always, you’ve won. Garand had a fun time, but you (as always) have provided a better explanation.
Mike's goal was to give a shooter's perspective and he did a great job. The videos complement each other in ways that one could not do on its' own
"There's a cable, and a wheel, and a counter-recoil...thing"
Something I'd rather hear from an elevator mechanic than a gunsmith.
@@philmccracken6134 I doubt even the most experienced of elevator mechanics would understand this, I mean who does
That's the technical term.
i literally read this right when he said it...amazing
@@philmccracken6134 this is elevator that makes p-pew
Drill sargent: "Field strip your guns"
**AGRESSIVE* *BASHING* *STARTS**
What the fuck is a drill sargent
@@patriot1525 i don't actually know, sounds millitary though.
*Sergeant
Now let's see somebody do it blindfolded.
@@patriot1525 Bad man, VERY bad man, yells, YEEEEELLLLS!
"commie space magic" "russian space magic".
Excuse you. It's called slavic techno-sorcery, thank you very much.
gopnik electric boogaloos
As a Slav - can confirm
Vodka Induced Witchcraft.
Nikonov pulley magic.
What happens when Slav Techno-sorcerers clashed with Kraut Space Magicians?
I like how disassembly requires slamming it against a hard surface
Russian engineering, ladies and gentlemen. I love it.
Well, technically, not a single piece of this gun is complex.
The problem is that there are TOO MANY of them.
So it's the worst kind of complex - everything is a vital piece, simplistic as duck and can't be optimized. That's basically a gun without modification potential straight out of production.
Look alive boys, Intel guys think there might be a russian unit hiding somewhere nearby and we'll have to be careful to try and find them...
*Sound of 30 russian soldiers slamming their AN94 against the ground to disassemble them for cleaning*
Oh... Never mind then.
@@kowellif they are disassembling their rifles simultaneously, it means what it's a military training...
Yep I know what it's a joke, I'm too boring to laugh
@@burningsinner1132 it's because every single part is already optimized to its peak. that's why this gun is brilliant art-of-engineering piece imo.
@@karlja3ger It is a brilliant piece of engineering, but it's a bad weapon. Because weapon has to stay relevant to UNEXPECTED shifts in engineering. RPG- 7 uses somewhat questionable design of a rocket sitting outwards, which hurts it's accuracy. However, this seemingly pathetic design proved to be future-proof because you can spit out any geometry shape out of it as long as you can fit 40mm tail adapter and it's not too heavy to be shot via 2/4.5kg rated powder charge. In certain conflict in Eastern Europe obsolete grenades receive extras and quite often 80mm mortar rounds are retrofitted for better anti-infantry work.
In the meantime, the "perfect" rifle might as well be used as a scrap the moment war has changed... again, because you need to engineer a new rifle.
"how hard is it to take this gun apart?"
Igor: "Da."
Да, блять
In Soviet Russia, Gun Disassemble You!
Adepic How is life in your mama’s basement so far?
Daniel Sklydnev Looks like that you’re product of that process...
Котъ Баюнъ why are you trying to start arguments
Russians(soviets) :
Lets make the most basic reliable gun ever
also russians:
Lets make the most complicated variant of this but have it designed by car mechanics
Correction auto engineers...mechanics would never make something so asinine 🤣🤣
@@nickroyce7712 thank you. As a mechanic I make things simple so is simple to fix.
In 94, the USSR was no longer there. The USSR collapsed in 91.
@@Shitbox-Customs Thanks!. I wasnt to sure and took the middle way.
Russian engineering is best engineering :)
"So let me get this straight, you want me to design you a new rifle?"
-Rube Goldberg circa 1990
Nope Rube Goldberg won't have done anything this insane.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe add some marbles and a jet pack.
goldberg? No wonder the gun is so unrussian
@@Nabnab153 It's a joke...
Let's just marvel at the fact Ian not only knows how to disassemble it, he can also reassemble it, AND he actually understands how it works!
the magic of video editing....
You know the gun is complicated when Ian says he doesn't know what is the purpose of its iron sights
Its not about the gun's operation, its that he's never known what the top groove on the front sight is for due to no documentation.
@@Isaac-ho8gh probably a bottle opener 😁
@@PapaSchultz74 ah no lol, its actually for a tritium front sight post according to an AN94 manual I found in the comments of this video.
@@Isaac-ho8gh light capsule*
@@artemefimov8215 so a night time sights?
"There's a cable, and a wheel, and a counter-recoil...thing and a nucreal power plant, and a quantum computer, and T-34 doing stuff and .... "
Nucreal?
Dyslexics untie!
@@patrick-xu1go don't accidently unzip your pants in the process.
@@tfwthelsdkicksin6083 lmao
Don’t forget the SAIGA-12 stored in the gun just in case you need a backup gun
this gun was added to Modern Warfare today and i was wondering why the firing style was so funky, and lo and behold Gun Jesus pops up in my recommended vids with a breakdown.
Same! It’s actually really good in mp and okay in wz.
The AN-94 is lethal in Hardcore. I've maxed it out in a day. It's fire rate after the two round burst is to slow for Warzone.
@@critical_unknown I can confirm this, though the limb damage modifier is infuriating and makes it feel inconsistent as fuck :(
Laughs in BF4
I’m referring to him as gun Jesus now lmao
“Lenni, how do i disassemble an-94?”
“First, you flip switch. Next you slam buttstock on table repeatedly. It is good way to disassemble highly complex and expensive weapon.”
"Computer is slow!!!! Get me the sledgehammer!!!!"
@@timbaskett6299 blyatiful
@@timbaskett6299
_> Get me the sledgehammer!!!!_
Commonly known as PMD = "Percussive Maintenance Device".
the fact I read this in a bad russian accent makes it even better. XD
If we are spazzing out about how complex this gun is in 2017 just imagine how astonished people must have been in 1625 when they saw that wheellock breechloader.
When matchlock rifles were invented in 1475, people were spazzing out because they didn't have to hold a burning match to a flash pan by hand anymore.
They were probably like "Whats next! Maybe a gun that does not need a fuse?! Stop drinking dude and lets be real here its to complicated to ever exist!"
@ninjast4r actually that happend when they invented the zipper first time. it was slightly different, the zipper sides were one bellow the other .paralel but watched from front, one side was above the other and the locking was made by the zipper pushing the two lines of teeth one on another to fit.i saw a replica and u needed about 15 seconds to close the zipper since u had to move slower than we do today, but still, for that period it was insanely confortable versus using leather straps to tie your clothes on you. the lady that made it, forgot her name, was burned after a 2 hours trial and the "judge" actually wanted to let her go but after a heated argument in his house,he was too afraid people would think he is under some spell so he had to order her burned.yea...we had times like that..and we consider ourselves the most evolved species..yea right.
@@cosminxxx5287 we aren't the most evolved species?
Which species is more evolved than us?
@@jacksonfitzsimmons4253 how evolved you are is determinted by your efficiency in gaining energy while spending much less energy. imagine a fosil fuel generator that spends 1 galon of gasoline to give your home 6 hours of electricity.if another generator spends less for same 6 hours or spends same but gives more hours, is more evolved ofcourse. its samee with living beeings for example a turtle can live over 300 years cause the daily needed energy gained from the food is WAAAAAAAAAY above the energy it spends to get that food.the oxidation in the cells is much lower and produce much more energy than the turltle spends so it spend less energy and looses less cells in the process.on the other hand, a Tiger has to eat a quantity so big of food to sustain itself day by day, that he evolved to be one of the few cats that has to stay in water after he eats cause the belly will be much too heavy. hypercarnivores have to eat huge quantities of food to keep themselves runing.thats a very bad energy management.on a spend/gain spectrum we are going lower and lower as world population increases and we need to work more and more for the same quantity of food/water.also, compassion and ability to reason are two traits specific to humans so the level at which we are using them must also be an indicator of how much are we evolving.right now we see more and more people having less and less compassion and ability to use logic and reason.so to end the rant(lol) , the traits that make us to be above other animals are fading away or are less and less effective in keeping us alive as a species.we are destroying ourselves and our enviroment.you want to see evolution done right?check a crocodile not being changed since 100's millions of years still rocking like a boss with a brain the size of a spoon of soup.we have brains the size of a coconut and we still act like you see everywere in all news.Are we the most complex species ever to walk the earth?absolutely yes,no doubt. are most evolved/efficient?not in a 1000 years.
Just a note : "ММГ", written on the side, roughly stands for "Identical mass and size model", that can be made through factory deactivation, but can also be built like that from the start.
One more note: the keyword are the "mass" and "size", so it is usually not identical to real gun inside, but close to it.
The main idea is to use it for training or something, but without ability to use most of parts to build a real weapon.
The changes are not clearly visible, but critical to work - like bolt changes (some parts can be missed), or barrel ones (like holes and/or obstacles for bullets). So the quality can differs too.
It's factory deactivated weapon. That's a common practice for post-soviet weapon manufacturers. They take old army guns or defective new, deactivate it and sell for civilian market as "ММГ".
Sometimes deactivation is done very badly, so you couldn't use that gun even for disassembly/reassembly practice. It depends on which factory actually did a job and was that gun used by army or it was defective new production.
Defective guns mostly deactivated much nicely than army ones.
@@Chastity_Belt I approve that. It is real gun, have been deactivated. All ММГ's are.
@@МаксимГладышев-и3н ahh yes you've got one of those inverted L letters on your name
@@kakalimukherjee3297 those "inverted" letters was disigned by greeks before your far ancestors learned to write and use instruments
“How do we increase hit probability”
pre-2000: weird ass mechanisms or exotic ammo
Post-2000: red dot / holographic sights.
Considering optics costs in 20th century it was reasonable to go for mechanical solution
Military grade optics still cost a lot, the Chinese nockoffs are not really a solution for an army
The funny thing is that this wasn't made this way to be accurate, it was made this way to defeat body armor by putting two bullets into the same bullet hole, because someone in the Russian military defense development sphere thought _THIS_ would be easier than developing a reliable, inexpensive armor-penetrating infantry round.
@@WoobooRidesAgain It does not put 2 bullets into the same hole, it was meant for exactly what Ian said, to put 2 bullets down range before the recoil off sets the gun aim.
@@WoobooRidesAgain 5.45x39 can defeat at least 70% of body armor reliably already its higher velocity than 5.56
this could be the first time I've heard Ian genuinely struggle to explain a firearms inner workings.
and it's not even Swiss !
What is the worst thing a russian soldier could hear? "Clean these AN94's, blyat!"
Followed by giving up and going for some kompot.
I honestly expected the disassembly to be worse.
I could actually see myself do a rough cleaning really quick. Just pull the main assembly out, wipe it all down with anti-fouling solvent, wipe dryish, add oil, and reassemble and rack the action a few times.
Watching Ian disassemble the fucking thing almost gave me a panic attack.
Have you guys not seen Larry Vickers' video on the AN94?
After he fired a few rounds the gun jammed and it took 4 people to clear it.
I got an AN-94... Wot Suka Blyat!!!
You remember that really cool Optimus Prime you had as a kid that was a mess to transform? This is that on crack.
Oh my g o d i remember this vividly
"now put it back together again"
Boss music
Ian explaining the AN-94 sounds like Walter White explaining meth cookin, I really enjoyed 'em.
Haha
Deactivated firearms always make my soul hurt...
MobileCrusader especially something like this
MobileCrusader it's disappointing but the guns aren't unsalvageable. At any rate, a museum piece like this would never have been fired anyway
I feel this way about old boats or planes that get decommissioned.
AFAIK even the police aren't allowed full auto weapons. All police rifles are semi-auto as far as I'm aware.
The police use sub-machine guns usually and quite a few police forces in the country have G36C's in their arsenals. I've seen my fair share of them in Manchester Airport
Well it's got a pulley system so just add some clockwork, some small motors, and a waterwheel and you could probably get a 3 round burst at 2200rpm.
I can make it 4 rounds, but at 5 the gerbil dies and you're stuck back at 3.
It exists.
The motors are prone to fail due to overheating but this gun was reliable as FUCK !
Hahaha a fucking waterwheel, that was good. Maybe add a windmill to generate some non GMO power to charge the laser sight
every S.T.A.L.K.E.R. player will say that this weapon is not forgotten at all
Jan Bojarski cheeki breeki
Meh, they're all cuckold little ladyboys
Jan Bojarski Get out of here STALKER
It's such a shame it doesn't work as the real thing in any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. unless you use mods
BASED
Even the way the trigger drops the sear is incredibly impressive.
Pulling the trigger does not simply pull the sear down, but tilts a perpendicular latch, allowing the seat to lower more vertically. The length of the latch could also determine trigger pull distance by taking advantage of the pivoting lever. Wow
I will most likely be studying this marvelous piece of engineering in the future, and copying some of its design principles in projects of mine
Have you made your own an94 yet?
@@legitbeans9078 nope, but I did get my .300 WinMag bullpup project out of storage to finish!
@@legitbeans9078no, but I’ve started designing a bullpup, locking wedge-delayed, pistol caliber, sub-machine gun.
In Russia, rifle is so complex, it operates you!
@Yaroslav That's China, my man. The shooter shoots everyone around him here.
@@dave_riots Shoots everyone in country concerts and in schools.
@@caffeinatedinsanity2324 Yep.
That random guy lurking in the comment section ？
@@caffeinatedinsanity2324 well maybe shoot back then
*Ak-47:* Who are you?
*An94:* I'm you but complicated.
an94: I am you, but better in every single way
An94: I'm you but smarter
WeedNose Lieutenant debatable
WeedNose Lieutenant all of what you described is assuming they want the weapon for an army. If you’re special forces you might wanna pick the AN-94 because you’re more specialized so there’s no need for simplicity.
Please guys. Remember the AK74
"I am you, but better"
Watched at 16 minute explanation of how this thing works and I still don’t really get how it works.
Eh, the key is instead of just a bolt carrier it has a whole another (spring-operated) gun inside. And that second gun can strip cartridges going in both directions (picking them from a special cache in the mid-position where they are stored by a separate stripper, picked from the magazine). So the outer gun first moves the inner gun forward, has it pick the cartridge on its motion forward, lock in place, then fire in the forward position. Recoil and gas piston move the inner gun back, it ejects the spent cartridge and strips one from the cache (while going in the opposite direction as before!) then locks it and fires before it ends its backwards travel.
Just read a detailed description of how this thing works and I still don’t really get how it works.
same here. it may be simply by magic
@@jag0937eb Commie space magic...
@CR BZ Yes, depending how you define "separate". There's definitely a separate system that feeds rounds from magazine into the "prearranged" position - then depending how you look at it and where you draw the lines, either 1 (bidirectional) or 2 (1 for forward, 1 for back)systems feeding from there into the "inner gun" - a fully functional 1-shot spring-operated gun, with barrel, chamber, firing pin, ejector, but not own feed system.
6:09 in the " AB " mode, the first two shots of the queue also go at a rate of 2000 shots per minute, then the rate automatically decreases to 600 per minute.
1800 rpm actually
@@alexm566 yes, I was wrong. Thanks for the correction.
I love how Russian ingenuity can range from bare utilitarian - duct tape and stick welding things together, to brilliant engineering like the AN-94
This isn't brilliant engineering it an absolute nightmare
@@danieltanner8267 its a brilliant engineering focused on the solving of very specific and strict requirements. It doubles the shooter efficacy, which was the objective. Im pretty sure that since this was the first iteration of the gun, they could have optimized it further. Sadly the designer died and whatever ideas he had for that, died with him.
Its called knowledge, not everyone knows everything.
Sometimes duct tape can be useful
Local man discovers that group of millions has variation in engineering skills
@@TheCompleteMental L0L!
Incredibly Advanced and expensive Russian service rifle-
*smashes on table to disassemble*
I saw a guy on Kalashnikov channel disassemble it without smashing!
@@TheFatMob They are no true russian
Now we need to see the German space magic that is the HK G11
Fuckin' Godlike same man its crazy how they made that fuckin gun. I want one really fuckin bad.
Fuckin' Godlike oh same. Id see it and not do anything out of just shock. Then id calm down and mess with it and hold the thing.
The inside of the G11 looks like a fucking clock.
With increasingly brilliant videos from Ian, eventually l won't be happy until he says ''Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on Forgotten Weapons, l'm Ian McCollum and today we're gonna have a look at the Tsar Bomba.''
"We have so much footage on this that we've got a whole separate video, 'Disassembly and Firing' linked down in the description below."
То чувство, когда не зная английского от западного блогера узнаешь больше, чем от российских. Спасибо, вы очень подробно рассказали о АН-94
Таки пора учить бездуховный язык.
@@northwest457 это просто трёп промытого дурачка-фантазёра. для него греция будет райским местом, а центр москвы нищенским коррумпированным дном.
Западный блогер не абы кто, а Иан по прозвищу Оружейный Иисус...
huh an94 just came out in modern warfare and UA-cam recommends me this, neat
Same
Sameee
Same 😂
That's how I seen this🤣
Forreal tho
Remember guys this thing passed the same reliability testing it as the AK's were subject to.
Pyotyr Young good point sir.
Holy shit.
damn russians man, they make some insanely reliable shit
And for that reason, special units are still issued these, as they still turn up from time to time in those situations where those units are needed.
Not hard. AKs aren't all that reliable.
While disassembling AN, Ian woke his inner Ivan
I(v)an
Comrade Urod Ivan Fuckoff
Watching this again after a recent Royal Armouries feature of the AN-94 and saw this episode was released 7 years ago. I realized that I have been watching your programs for nearly a fifth of my life (and I am old!).
Vasili :Ivan, they said our AK is too simple
Ivan :Hold my Vodka
If it were not for the Russian Ivan and his weapons, you would not have defeated the Americans, but now you would have been like Iraq or Libya.
go eat a cheesburger fat boy
Nyet. Rifle is fine
Also Ivan: get me another vodka
Alex 111 I’ve seen you a lot here I’m guessing you’re just racist against Americans you’re either British or Russian from what I’ve seen
"Iven we need to out do the Germans on making the inside of the gun over complicated"
Germans: 'laughs in G11'
@@Dutch_is_a_Weird_Language Im finding it difficult to figure out which is more complicated. I mean the G11 is practically built like a clock but the AN94 has winches and cables.
3 more wheel pulleys to make it an 8 round burst please 😀👍
)))))))
Loved this gun in Bad Company 2. Always appreciated the technological developments that went into it.
it was a beast
This and the m60 were so OP when the game first launched lol
Bc2, best game ever 😢
This is such a great video. Спасибо Ian! Add the AEK-971 please.
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How many years does it take to get a degree in AN94 disassembly
dndboy13 7.
all of them
5.45
1994, respectively.
94
5:36 this is not zero
О - Огонь - fire
П - Предохранитель - safety
Im going to act like I did try to pronounce that instead of just skimming past.
@@joelguzman9280 it's o-GON' and pre-dokh-ra-NI-tel'. Really easy!
He also missed the - AB - Which is not 'a' 'b' but 'а' 'в' (a, v) meaning автоматично - automatic
@@Mgaga97 автоматический
@@saint_alucardwarthunder759 yup brother, you are probably from Russia, I'm from Bulgaria - was guessing how It was going to be written
"Armorer, my gun has a pulley in it."
"Well keep quiet will you, or everyone will want one."
i understood the table bashing ... then i got lost :D
Vincenc Max Ureš 😂😂😂
It’s supposed to be that way. You just slam it, breaks it and they give you a good old Kalash.
AN91 is an amazing firearm masterpiece not a mass army weapon.
7:13 "The trick to getting the top cover off is to hit it against the table."
Ak 74(m) needs to smash butt stock over something to recoil, if u are still trying to us ak as a machinegun, after 600 rounds.
Do you own a red ttc?
the tabe was almost not sturdy enough
Another feature of this assault rifle is that in full auto mode, it starts with the 2 round burst at 1800 rpm and then switches to 600 rpm auto fire, every time you pull the trigger, you can check that in a video where a soldier from one of the special brigades who use AN-94 fires it. Also something distinct of this gun is that the bayonet lug is on the right side of the barrel which is something unique in russian guns.
Wow... that even makes full-auto mode twice as effective (unless you just dump the whole mag on a barn).
Andres Menes so black ops 2 got it right
They had. Main point of the gun was to be used by special forces, but it turns out main issue of it, because russian SF made it weary clear:
''If it can't withstand same condition, that SF troop can, then we don't need it''.
Also AN-94 was fully adopted by russian SF and fully used in battle and SF operation, but verdict was the same, good weapon for shooting, but unreliable in real battle and long terms condition, same issue was with AEK-971, SF troops were weary pleased of by that gun because it fired weary accurate even in burst mode of 3 shots, but 2000-3000 shots and gun needed spare parts.
Also when SF actually compared AK-74 with AN-94,they found out that AN-94 only advantage was in 2 shots in burst mode, which AK-74 just didn't have. Whet they fired with 1 shot (most used fire mode) AK was more accurate, whet tried full auto again AK was winner and do we need to talk about complexity of those two? - sow there was reasonable question : ''Why do we need it?" .
AN-94 was heavier, much more complex, expensive in time and materials, less reliable and required weary delicate user. Nikonov tried to lesser the negative side, but unfortunately he died and after his death there was now one to continue his work.
And yes Nikonov made his AN-94 for special concurs which task was ''2 shots in 1 target'' - for that it was perfect, but in all other terms it was bad.
Al Zl ''Weary''.. lol
I know that this is an old video, and this would hard to do without Larry or your contacts, but a video comparing how the AK107 and the AN94 work would be awesome. It would dispel a lot of myths
Myths? About guns? Preposterous
They're totally different but yeah the AK-107 and AEK series are super interesting, hope they get featured one day.
@@boredgunner and their successor A545 somehow
@@revimfadli4666 Well I have certainly lost interest now that Ian has broken down and tested the BARS system. There's no such thing as magic!
One makes recoil be less felt the other fires a second round mid movement of the mechanism lmao
In the Corps we had to field strip the M16 in 20 seconds or something. I can only imagine Ruskies conversations: "Field strip before Tuesday and you get the Order of Lenin!"
Russians know you never need to dismantle it because it will never fail, even if you nuke it.
haha wankers, we strip ak in uner 10 seconds
@@MrBear-ov4ix no shit bruh
@121bham I can see your butthurt from over here in my beloved Mother Russia. It makes the sky look wonderfully red huehuehue
@@fireblazesmobileaccount2607 7? Shit my life crumbled apart at 5 seconds. Gotta work fast there
When he said how the burst works I remembered that this rifle was one of the first guns unlockable in battlefield 4. It was actually a beast in hardcore mode, in classic multiplayer not so great.
It's a beast in any mode, you just need to be accurate. It was even better in BF3.
Then again, every gun is remarkably powerful in HC modes, tho to be more effective you should run flechette rounds in a shotgun w some flash nades
@@Skiptracer1981 when you crossed paths with someone with a boatload of kills with the AN94 you were in for a bad day. Absolute sweatlord gun, never could use it effectively.
Was the only thing i used in BF3@@Dourkan
Bro that thing was a beast in any game in any mode
This rifle goes against pure Russian values of simplicity.
Just compare that with G11
Lol, indeed. That's why they ended up not using it I assume.
Larry Vickers got to shoot one a while back and apparently it took three guys and a stick to clear some of the malfunctions.
@Inclement The G11 had so much potential to advance and simplify over time. What a shame it wasn't adopted, but maybe Ian lands in Germany someday, so he can disassembly a G11K2.
Eric Brown they have many complex weapons. The mosin nagant isn't all that simple either
the engineering on this is absolutely incredible.
That gun blows by the point where it makes more sense to just weld two AK74s together.
Just wield two an94's
Thank you colonel, for gracing us with your presence
In a specialist environment, this gun is good. Full out war is better suited to the 74.
Well they tried that once, with three of them, called the Pribor 3b. I guess this is a less insane solution- and it does what its supposed to, give you two hits for one recoil.
MarvinRunyon now that would be Soviet Union tech!!
H&K after developing G11: We've developed the most complicated gun in the world.
Nikonov: Hold my Vodka...
The G11 looks like a hard drive inside, this one uses a pulley! This is a 2 round burst that Da Vinci would be proud of. Steve Jobs would like the G11 though lol.
@@Si74l0rd as abusive as Steve Jobs was to his employees and somewhat his lady I don't think that he would ever have wanted anything like that.
"...mechanically extremely complex and weird Russian rifle" is a phrase I NEVER expected to hear.
because there's not way russians can make anything sophisticated, right ?
You haven't heard much .... Russian engineering is top notch their missiles are from the dreamland/
I tought that was illegal
Pretty impressive! I thought, upon first hearing about this, "So basically an overly complicated binary trigger?" But turn out it's more than that. Thanks for your informative and always through break-downs, I feel a little bit smarter after every one.
P.S. never change your filming set up. Your videos remind me of old programs that you would catch on a Sunday morning on PBS. It's soothing and makes me feel nostalgic.
God damn, Gun Jesus was in my home city and I didn't know.
H E I S G U N J E S U S
Albert Gunstein
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Oh... Do you know how russians call parts they do not know real name of? Try to translate with some web services "пиздюлина", "поебень", "хуйнюшка". So the thiiiing is just well known part name.
preacher jonson When he comes to down do the citizens cover the streets with spent brass? Just curious.
Well now we know why Mikhail Kalashnikov died....
Even the Germans would have realised they went too far when a steel wire and a pulley showed up in the blueprints.
You might notice that the name in the video title is 'Nikonov' and the rifle itself is called AN (Avtomat Nikonov), not AK (Avtomat Kalashnikov). Kalashnikov had nothing to do with this rifle.
Off course I noticed that.
Kalashnikov would never build something so obscenely complex. If he did present something like this to the Red Army he would get laughed out of the room.
This weapon literally stands against anything his designs stand for and I suspect he probably hated it.
I agree completely. It's just that a good deal of the time people are pretty unfamiliar with Russian weapons, leading to misinformation. I couldn't be sure from the initial post, so I commented. Thankfully it was needless.
@@motorsportfangr 7 years late but Kalashnikov praised Nikonov's designs.
can you take a look a the AEK-971?
Its a ak74 with a conter balance systeme
Bf4 flashbacks.
bfbc2 starter gun
Operation locker flashbacks
*BF:BC2 flashbacks*
That actually isn't TOO bad, especially when you remember that the H&K G11 exists.
IMO, the G11 has way more complicated ammunition. But the rifle itself seems simpler.
Whereas this thing runs bog standard 5.45 ammo, but the gun resembles the inside of a piston engine.
@@OrtadragoonXergonomics and reload on the AN-94 are also far more human friendly than the g11
Видимо вы не слышали об автоматах серии ТКБ
The g11 was far more ambitious thoigh.
Those are "O" (Огонь / Ogon' = Fire) and "П" (Letter P in Russian. Stands for Предохранитель / Predohranitel' = Safety mechanism)
Spas'ibo, Alex )))))
I clicked this thinking "Now how and the hell did you get ahold of this"
Suspect on foot[FIN] it's not a replica, it's a real firearm that was deactivated at the factory. There's a big difference.
That being said, the markings before "AH-94" are abbreviations for three words that roughly translate to "replica." Someone else in the comments section here explains it more thoroughly.
ММГ stands for "Макет МассоГабаритный" which means "Size and weight accurate model" In Russia it usually means deactivated real guns, and newly-made replicas (like Denix's replicas) usually called "реплика" - replica
Евгений Макаров это боевой автомат, деактивированный на том же заводе для учений. Так что это не реплика!!!!!
Дык я так и написал. Под "ММГ" у нас обычно понимается попилка из боевого, под репликой - изначально неживой новодел.
Done Drill Sergeant!"
"GUMP!! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly Gump?
"....(softer) You told me to, Drill Sergeant."
"Jesus H. Christ. This is a new company record!" (looking at calendar)
It was a great pleasure to watch Ian struggling to take it apart while I lay comfortably on my couch. Such dedication :D
AN94: No one understands me, I'm living without a purpose!!
16:44
*Commits suicide*
LMAOOOOO
АХАХАХАА
[Piano Man Intensifies]
What a ridiculously complex system! I have always respected the Russian/Soviet ability to field rugged, simple, effective, and reliable battlefield rifles; but this one is just plain nuts. I kept thinking "You could field strip, clean, and reassemble a dozen Kalashnikovs in the time it would take to do the same for this rifle."
I'm pretty sure you could *manufacture* a Kalashnikov in less time than it would take to strip and clean this rifle.
As best I remember from other sources I read some time ago now; this weapon is a bit more sophisticated and practical than laid out here. The odd muzzle attachment is a whistle. It's there to shift a lot of the muzzle blast's noise into a high frequency range that you cannot hear. In other words, its a small and rugged sound suppressor. I imagine it irritates dogs, though. And I personally suspect that the real practical reason the Russians wanted a high-RPM two-shot burst is to defeat modern western body armor. The AN-94 is accurate enough to strike armor in almost exactly the same spot twice and from a respectable range. So it can dust a ceramic plate or compromise a metal plate then hit that plate in pretty much the same spot with an instantaneous follow-up. I'll put this another way. The AN-94 is so accurate and its two shots are so closely spaced that hit probability is not a rational explanation for the design. The rationale has to do with hitting the same spot twice. They would not want to sell a functional example for a lot of reasons; not least of which would be the tendency to really figure out what the weapon is good at and within what parameters it's actually effective. It's heavy and expensive and they have a lot of AK variants on hand that work just fine for their local conficts. The AN-94 was intended to ghost NATO troops.
As far as I know the designer just really didn't want the gun to be exported, given that the Russians have had no qualms about selling or outright giving away brand new designs immediately after they're adopted by the military that seems a more likely explanation.
I don't know much about Nikonov, but Russian designers generally have no say in what the state does with the guns. Some things have changed with the end of the Soviet period, but much has remained the same and the arms industry is a very conservative part of Russian society. Typically, in the Soviet period, they would make something like a new tank to standard spec.s for their own use, then design a down-graded export version of that tank. They're very cagey about stuff like that.
I tried to get through the comments below, but there are too many of them and the vast majority of it is repeated questions already answered, video game references and other pointless statements.
Having spent a bit of time in Russia when I was young, I can assure you that Russians are exceedingly skilled at repairing and maintaining machinery. They would have zero problems keeping the AN-94 running just fine in the field. And the complexity in the AN-94 is very neatly reduced through sophisticated design tricks. Considering the performance demands, this is a very simple design.
It's obviously an expensive weapon to produce and Russia is focused on regional conflicts now, so my guess is they simply don't need the AN-94's enhanced performance enough to justify the cost.
Maket is the same word russians use for doll or model, as I recall. They would make a model like that for training purposes. The idea would be to have a realistic model that could be passed around throughout the entire military and police system without much concern for accidents, loss, misuse or even much attention to securing the weapon.
If anyone wants to see a Russian cuss at a rifle and bitch about having to clean it, just give him an M-16. There are good reasons they never copied Stoner's Armalite.
You say that the AN 94 has the hyperburst feature to punch through the ceramic plates of body armor by hiting the plate at the exact same spot 2 times. However I dont think that the weapon is that accurate in its hyperburst after seeing a video of somone shooting it.
ua-cam.com/video/DJxpncKswEg/v-deo.html
What is your opinion on the precision shown there? Do you think that is close enough? Do you have any evidence supporting your claim?
i know right thats why i love it so much in stalker nothing like sniping a fully armored enemy with a two tap to the head with armor piercing ammo
Something like that. In 2-burst mode at 100-125 meters range you get one hole in a target from 2 bullets - they hit the same spot, at bigger distances bullets still hit very close. So the idea was to defeat modern ceramic/composite body armour plates at close to medium shooting distances, get higher stopping power for soft targets, maximize hit probability for moving/medium to long range/behind light cover targets. The figure 8 muzzle device indeed alters the attack portion of sound spectrum, also helps to clean the barrel. There's also tritium points attachment for sights to use in low light conditions. Though tests showed the idea works just fine, and the gun turned out to be rather reliable, it was turned down for mass production as AK-74 replacement, since it was still too expensive, heavy and over-complicated to use by regular grunts. Recently it was decided that AEK (А-545/762 variants) will be in production for our special forces and AK-12/15 are going to slowly replace AK-74s as standard issue rifles, so the remaining AN-94 will only be used by some folks in 604 ЦСН ВВ МВД conter-terrorist and СОБР units.
I used to love using the AG 94 on SOCOM 3, and I was wondering what it was based on. Found it was this rifle, and had no idea how complicated it was! Thanks Ian! Love your channel.
"extremely complex and expensive"
So it's the complete opposite of an AK
AK'nt
I thought that too, until he started bashing it against the table and then it seemed some things never change for the Russians
it actually pisses me off because of how smart the designer had to be.
The designer used LSD while working.
Fritz: "Ve make ze most complicated veapons"
Ivan: "Hold my beer"
Hold my vodka?
@@ottohahn-herrera8618 and so I almost edited it as soon as I posted it.
@@sandramonterocervantes7099 No sabes lo que dices.
@@sandramonterocervantes7099 just go and check their schemes on google.
If you have any engineering experience, ofc.
@@sandramonterocervantes7099
Nah, different systems.
I know it's complicated and there are cheaper alternatives. But I love this gun so much. It's so unique and looks so neat.
Russia: Creates extremely complicated weapons system
MW players: Haha 2 bullets go fast
Haha gun go BANGBANG BANG BANG.
@@JTawesome92
More like *B-BANG BANG BANG*
I know this from bo2
@@okayed its not the exact same thing.
@@okayed you and me both.
It's a rube goldberg machine
Seeing the complexity involved in this really makes me appreciate the benefits of Caseless on the G11, even though that one suffered all the other problems in even more extremes. Not having to eject certainly makes some things easier.
That said, this is fascinating. Thanks for the video.
I love the dichotomy of handling with white gloves and banging on the table. Never change, Ian.