Nikonov AN-94

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Can someone explain me all the secrecy arround the Nikonov AN-94?
Is the rifle truly superior by 1.5 as some claim to?
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I personally don't see much value in putting two bullets through one hole. The 5.45x39 mm round was not designed to fragment, but to tumble, so how is the hydrostatic shock going to be any different between one fragmenting 5.56 mm bullet than a pair of tail to nose 5.45 mm bullets tumbling in the same space?
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The two rounds bursts are fired at very high rate of fire, and a trained shooter can make a single hole in the target at 100 meters in this mode.This allows for significant increase in lethality, stopping power and body armour penetration over the single shot mode, with the same "singles hot" accuracy.
 
Okay, I'm not an expert, but this is the info I gathered from a Russian forum months ago. The main selling feature is that it has a firing mode that fires two bullets so quickly that the two bullets enter the same hole. Why? Simply for armour penetration. Why don't they just get or design better ammunition? I don't know. Ask Nikonov. Apparently it has a very complex trigger system. Annoying to clean.
 
The idea was to defeat the modern day ballistic vests. 2 bullets goes in the same hole = more chance the bullets will penetrate the vest.
 
lighter cartridges so you can carry more/ same idea that US used for 5.56

a0jc said:
Okay, I'm not an expert, but this is the info I gathered from a Russian forum months ago. The main selling feature is that it has a firing mode that fires two bullets so quickly that the two bullets enter the same hole. Why? Simply for armour penetration. Why don't they just get or design better ammunition? I don't know. Ask Nikonov. Apparently it has a very complex trigger system. Annoying to clean.
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deagle2008 said:
lighter cartridges so you can carry more/ same idea that US used for 5.56
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Yes, but they could design (or adopt) a better immediate cartridge to achieve their goals rather than force a bullet to do what it normally can't do by complicating a very important component of the infantryman; The rifle. Sure, a bunch of light rounds can give you a leg up in volume of fire, but when you have to close in and defeat your enemy and his armour, you shoot two bullets instead of one. Effectively halving the carried rounds. Then you got a complex system making maintenance difficult. I have a feeling the AN-94 will be a specialist weapon among all the other interesting guns for Russian specialists.
 
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