Abakan project

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The AK-74 to be replaced by the project

The Abakan project was a Soviet-Russian project that was carried out from 1980 to 1994 in order to find a successor to the AK-74 or at least to increase the combat value of the orderly weapon of the Russian armed forces . The name of the project comes from the city of Abakan in southern Siberia, as weapons tests were carried out in the fields there.

Background and story

The AEK-971 involved in the tender

In evaluating the firefights on the battlefields of the 1970s , Russian analysts formulated changed conditions and requirements for a new orderly weapon. It should be possible to fire continuous fire from unstable positions, for example from a kneeling or lying position like in house-to-house combat .

A commission of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for military-industrial questions was therefore commissioned under the code name "Abakan" on August 27, 1981 to develop a new assault rifle with a caliber of 5.45 × 39 mm , which in sustained fire by a factor of 1.5 to 2 better hit pattern than the AK-74 should achieve.

Evaluated weapons

The following prototypes were involved in the tender:

  1. AEK-971
  2. AEK-978W
  3. AO-63
  4. AKB-1
  5. AS (AN-94)
  6. NA-2
  7. NA-4
  8. TKB-0111
  9. TKB-0136-3M
  10. TKB-O146

Result

The AN-94 that emerged from the project

The AN-94 model by Gennady Nikonow came onto the market in the early 1990s, but could not meet the claim to replace the AK-74 and is currently only used occasionally by special forces.

The AEK-971 manufactured in Kovrov ( Vladimir Oblast ) is also used occasionally.

Overall, the project did not produce a satisfactory result, so the AK-74 is still the standard rifle of the Russian army today.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Автомат АН-94" ( Memento from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on November 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Здесь мы говорили о новых автоматах для армии. А какие еще варианты, кроме систем Калашникова и Никонова вообще рассматривались? "Accessed November 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Автомат АН-94" ( Memento from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on November 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b "Out for AK-47: Russia's Army does not want Kalashnikovs anymore". Accessed November 11, 2014.