World's Rarest Production Rifle: The AN-94, Part 1 with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson

We have a very, very special one for you this week.

David Lake of Small Arms Defense Journal describes a firearm that can "fire, eject, reload, fire, eject and reload, with perfect reliability, while almost totally eliminating recoil, in less time than the human eye can blink. Quite literally... two rounds just 33 milliseconds apart. Your eye blinks in 150 milliseconds".

Feast your eyes viewers, for this week we have that very firearm: The AN-94.

This episode is brought to you by World of Guns. As Jonathan says, the best way to wrap your head around the intricate engineering of the AN-94 (other than watching this video) is to get your virtual hands on it. As an early Christmas present, the folks at World of Guns are offering 2,000 copies of the AN-94 model within World of Guns for free by using the code 'JONATHAN10'.

Instructions on how to enter the promo code: https://noble-empire.com/images/enter...

You can discover World of Guns here:

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/26...

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/world-o...

Play Games:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

References:

Jonathan Ferguson. ‘Russian AN-94 Self-Loading Rifle’, Hoplite Blog (Armament Research Services), 2017):
https://armamentresearch.com/russian-...
https://armamentresearch.com/russian-...

Valery Shilin. ‘The Secret Story of The AN-94 “Abakan” Assault Rifle’ (Chipotle, 2002). https://smallarmsreview.com/the-secre...

And in Russian;

Maxim Popenker. ‘История автомата в СССР и России’ (Атлант, 2021).
Dr Ruslan Chumak. ‘Методом проб и ошибок. Автомат Никонова АН-94 «Абакан»’, Kalashnikov magazine, 2018. https://www.kalashnikov.ru/metodom-pr...
(Dr Chumak has other articles in the same publication "Что ждет Абакан" (Issue 4, 2001) & - "Методом проб и ошибок" (Issue 6, 2007).

0:00 Cold-ish Open
0:48 AN-94-A-Trois
1:00 Live Firing Three AN-94s
2:42 The AN-94
2:55 6x5 Bayonet
3:40 GP-25 Grenade Launcher
4:38 World of Guns
6:12 Canted Magazine
8:12 Firearm Interior
13:38 Heart of the AN-94 System
14:00 How the AN-94 Works
17:25 Outro

Subscribe to our channel for more videos about arms and armour

Help us bring history to life by supporting us here: https://royalarmouries.org/support-us...

Sign up to our museum membership scheme here: https://royalarmouries.org/support-us...

⚔Website: https://royalarmouries.org/home
⚔Blog: https://royalarmouries.org/stories/
⚔Facebook:   / royalarmouriesmuseum  
⚔Twitter:   / royal_armouries  
⚔ Instagram:   / royalarmouriesmuseum  

We are the Royal Armouries, the United Kingdom's national collection of arms and armour. Discover what goes on behind the scenes and watch our collection come to life. See combat demonstrations, experience jousting and meet our experts.

Have a question about arms and armour? Feel free to leave us a comment and we'll do our best to answer it.