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 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*
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
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.
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
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
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*
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
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
"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!"
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
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.
“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
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
*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
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.
Ian explaining the AN-94 sounds like Walter White explaining meth cookin, I really enjoyed 'em.
Haha
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🤣
"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
this could be the first time I've heard Ian genuinely struggle to explain a firearms inner workings.
and it's not even Swiss !
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....
Notice he didn’t show putting it back together.
Ian never almost shows that
In accordance with CZcams'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.
"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!
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.
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
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.
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
Arman Amirkhanyan what about a $5 flashlight 😂 the education failed us
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.
"Armorer, my gun has a pulley in it."
"Well keep quiet will you, or everyone will want one."
"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!
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...
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!
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.
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.
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 😢
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.
"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
"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
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
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.
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
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?
AN-94 in action from Garand Thumb channel:
czcams.com/video/5_LvFpIu8FI/video.htmlfeature=shared
It was a great pleasure to watch Ian struggling to take it apart while I lay comfortably on my couch. Such dedication :D
"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...
Russians: "This american AR system is too complicated"
Also Russians: create AN94
that never said that
@@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.
@@onpsxmember . Something like that. Worked funtastic, not so sure.I don't remember every aspect. (Fal also pretty interesting gun. Never had chance to shoot one. 😭😭😭 )
There is several version's about it. Where is proud or many, never believe 100%.
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.
Watching Ian bashing the rifle on the table to get the receiver off, I'm thinking "I guess we don't have to worry about Jet Li disassembling it while it's pointed at him."
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
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.
Thank you Ian! I missed this one and it just came up in my main feed.
You *know* you're up against "Special" Forces when you recognize that muzzle-on, it means you're facing Cosmonauts!
Thanks for showing this rather obscure rifle, very interesting operating system.
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!!!
"now put it back together again"
Boss music
3:48
"But if I point the rifle at you"
- Everybody in the range: 🤨
Barrel is plugged and bolt face is cut off. But, yeah, it still felt a bit weird to see him point it directly at “us” at home haha!
This idea opens up so many concepts for me. Something like a "dual bolt" loading system, where one bolt extracts a spend case, and a second loads the next round into a common barrel.
Mh would be interesting to compare that to a revolver cannon.
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.
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 :)
I love the dichotomy of handling with white gloves and banging on the table. Never change, Ian.
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.
“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
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.
@@user-ol9es7ob7p 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
During a long blowback, the locking mechanism releases itself twice and works. Genial engineering. Of course more complex than I thought. Easier to understand, if you check an xray animation about this gun.
Remember that in stalker every technician can repair anything including the an94, that means they have to disassemble this rifle several times a day make their own new parts or clean the whole thing and if the gun isn't to much broken... THEY DO IT FOR JUST 53 FUCKIN ROUBLES
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
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
My jaw hit the floor when I saw that recoil/feed system. I cannot not believe my eyes.
Before, I've always wondered why I always hear about the AK and its varieties, but never about the AN-94.
Now I get it.
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
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
I came back to this for a refresher
The design based on the brilliant premise that if the first shot misses, the second would connect for certain! To be serious I would call it a solution looking for a problem.
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
*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"
Garand Thumb just did a video on this. He and Micah got one on loan and were allowed to shoot 300 rds through it. It's great at 100 yds or less but past that, the groups in the burst mode were getting a bit off. Also, it seemed the two rd burst was sometimes a 3 rd burst. They weren't sure if that was a design flaw or if it's just the rifle being worn out.
Garand thumb has one firing it.Check it out. Awesome video.
While disassembling AN, Ian woke his inner Ivan
I(v)an
Comrade Urod Ivan Fuckoff
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
I think I finally get it, and this is the 3rd time I've watched this video. That's not to say that you are not good at explaining complex things (I mean, I understood the G11 the first time I watched your video). I think the fact that someone cut off the head of that "secondary bolt" during the de-mil process made it more difficult to visualize than it otherwise would have been. Anywho, thank you so much for bringing us such wonderful content! 🤙
Honestly, as interesting as the disassembly of all these weapons is, for once this wouldve been a nice place to showcase the assembly too, as it seems to be a pain in the arse in this particular case ;)
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.
3 more wheel pulleys to make it an 8 round burst please 😀👍
)))))))
The theory is so simple, the implementation is mind bending.
I kinda wish that this gun, if it wasn’t so damn expensive, was adopted into service in larger numbers. The hyperburst mode is quite cool and useful. Plus, it looks slick and unique.
I guess hyperburst isn't that great, otherwise it would be adopted. But it's not
@@quadroninja2708it’s mostly wasn’t adopted because of price
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.
"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.
This was my favorite weapon in Battlefield Bad Company 2. I didn't know it was this complex.
Who else is here after the GT video?
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."
huh an94 just came out in modern warfare and CZcams recommends me this, neat
Same
Sameee
Same 😂
That's how I seen this🤣
Forreal tho
Imagine in the future if a new model was developed, the AN 25' would have a 3-4 round hyper burst, it would be more complicated to develop, but i think it would do well
I think the foresight tip and rear sight are designed for low light / dark conditions where in some illuminated stick is fixed/filled for reflex shooting.
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!
"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?
То самое оружие из ММО, которое невозможно экипировать из-за слишком низкого интеллекта))
😂
Perfect
вот почему вы никогда не увидите, чтобы украинец держал его
@@user-qo3yy9nv1u приехали
@@user-qo3yy9nv1u точно так же как и обычного российского солдата. Да как же так, это ведь оружие, принятое только в спецназ и силовые структуры!
Very interesting weapon! Thanks for sharing this.
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
Ian had me at cables, wheels, and cantilevers on this one. Alternatively, you could go the pushups will continue until the double taps improve privates route
The mag insertion noise is very satisfying.