Why Only Russian Spetsnaz Use This Weird Low Recoil Gun 

Thanks for watching spare parts army. Get a FREE MYSTERY Item valued at $50 when you subscribe with code ‘TASKANDPURPOSE’ at → bit.ly/TPAUGTANDP What do you think of Russia's AEK-971 why doesnt the US Military have any recoil mitigated weapons ?

As a man who used it at the caspian border and during operation métro as well as operation firestorm I can say this rifle is great.

As a veteran of operation locker I can confirm that gun is terrifying.

As a guy who has never even shot a gun but thinks he knows everything, I can say this rifle is excellent.

During operation firestorm and the fight in the Gulf of Oman even US soldiers would drop their M4s and take the russians AEK whenever possible. Very lethal equipment.

The year was 2042, I remember it just like it was yesterday. What turned into a regular patrol within a fireteam would change the way I saw things. This weapon wiped out my whole team before I can even request for ammo or place down a spawn beacon.

The reason why the An-94 won the akban trials was because the first two shots were 1800 rounds per minute while standard fire rate was 600 rounds per minute. So the first two shots could hit the target before the enemy could shoot their gun. The sad thing is that they never made a modern AN-94 variant.

On the gun itself, Ak-74 is accurate enough for the regular infantryman. No need to invest huge amount of money for a very marginal improvement in accuracy, if any. Especially considering the type of environment where is supposed to be used. But its great for the special forces who use it in very specific situations where individual accuracy plays a bigger role.

Had over 3000 confirmed kills with this rifle. Ive done tours at metro, noshahr canals, and locker (2011-2016), before i got discharged for my wounds. Wouldnt gonna make it without this - the gun truly shredded enemies like butter.

"Imagine if you fired a rifle and you felt no recoil" Didn't know Russians stole Jaeger Z999's rifles

0:55 Russian Spetsnaz and VDV (airborne troops) did not fail the attack on Gostomel airport. They kept it two months. They moved away from the Kiev direction to the Donbass.

The attack on gastomel was not a failure. They successfully took and defended the airfield. When Kiev direction didn’t work out, command gave the order to abandon the airfield. Basically meaning the operation was useless in the long run, but the special forces executed their mission at the time.

My favourite of the Abakan weapons is the TKB-0146. Largely a normal bullpup, funni little feed system but nothing unprecedented (if you include artillery). It was a runner up to the AN94, losing to it on the grounds of it being too complicated. An exploded view of the internal parts shows that might be code for "it doesnt look like an AK".

Always making entertaining and accurate content that I can look forward to, keep it up cappy

In dry desert/mountain areas accurate single shots are great. In a jungle or say, Finland, where visibility is usually 15-150m, full auto rules. (Vietnam?Well, no rifle can fix lack of training)

Failed air assault of the airport? They took that thing, repelled superior forces for days and then held it until they were told to pull out. Wtf are you talking about?

Hello, dear Chris There is a mistake in this video. A man wearing a papakha hat on 09:59 is Andranik Ozanyan. He is not Russian at all, he was an Armenian military leader. Papakhas were common in Armenia, in Georgia and in Caucasus. kind regards

According to my Battlefield 4 experience, I would highly reccomend adopting the AEK 971 - man that thing was a beast in game. Loved it.

I'd imagine that recoil-mitigation feature would've been quite handy for not only fully-automatic submachine guns, but also for light support weapons (like the M249 SAW) and heavier machine guns (like the M2) firing higher-caliber rounds like 7.62x51mm NATO or .50 BMG at lower rates of fire (say in the 450-600 RPM range), or even in semi-automatic mode.

Russian air assault on Gostomel was not a failure, VDV did exactly what was expected from them. They occupied the airport and kept it, defending it all the time till order came to leave. l mean occupying an enemy airport in their capital city can not be considered an failure by any standard, Russian military operation in Kiev did fail overall but Gostomel air assault as one smaller element of entire operation was successful, a victory that could not be exploited with out other elements.

0:56 It didn't fail. They held the airport for two weeks until relieved. It was a great success.

Hello expensive, hella complicated and hella heavy

The guy from forgotten weapons already proved that the recoil system in that weapon made little to no difference, once he threaded a specialized break the rifle performed as it was intended

i was deployed on damavand peak and trust me, this was one hell of a gun, it would decimate a whole squad paired to a suppresed glock 18 once we were at a tunnel we got sent to; shit was crazy.

2:52 they had to clap and there was a legend, that the one who staps claping first in front of stalin will be punished, but hoensly feels bad

09:42 is most likely a Chechen fighter. This head garment has its origins in the Caucasus region, associated with several local ethnic groups, and similar garments have subsequently been used with modifications by different Cossacks groups, and seen use in the Russian Imperial army in the past (by Cossack units), but they have otherwise little to do with ethnic Russian (Slavic) culture/tradition per se. One pretty well known modern days athlete who uses this headdress is the MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov who is of Avar ethnicity from the Caucasus region (Russia's Republic of Dagestan).

The double barrel looks like something Herrera would make.

Hey Cappy, I am pretty sure that the stars on the US flag should be on the top right corner (signifying forward movement), when worn on the right shoulder. (The stars are on the top left corner, when the flag is worn on the left shoulder)

12:31 Razvedos isn't a soldier any more. He is ex-military that is making content and is keeping in close touch with those who are active. He has some close connections with the Russian specnaz school and makes videos about it on his YT channel. But hey, who does homework now days?

I was expected to hear about AK-107, but perhaps AEK is a cool gun as well.

On forgotten weapons, they tested it and found it's the muzzle brake that reduced the recoil.

as a man who got deployed with this on grand bazaar, I can say it brings hella lots of lead to the enemy.

Right off the bat from seeing the thumbnail I recognised it as the A-545 a modernized version of the AEK-971. It was originally designed for the RUAF's Ratnik program, but is being issued in small numbers to Spetsnaz groups.

Yeah in America we also know it’s not the stick but it’s the man who wields the stick

Fauled assault? Are you kidding? :) They took airfield and accomplished all goals. It was brilliant operation. But they took order to leave

In what sense Ghostomel airborne operation was a failed one? They got through heavy air defenses with no loss of transport choppers, they captured the airfield and held it against ground assault until the relieve force arrived. They pulled out in order when the order was given. Or this is from the same story where Soviet Union was saved by the D-day landing?

Hostomel was not a failure the VDV took the airport and held it 2 days they have done their job but the incapacity of russian GQG to give them air support allow Ukraine army to make a small counter offensive .

I'm sure the fancy rifles make people feel much better while they spend weeks hiding out in trenches waiting for a drone to bring artillery.

They don't. Because most of them are dead.

Gostomel operation wast failed at all, the guys did an excellent job, but they had to leave the airport during a global retreat from the Kyiv front. Ukraine was not going to surrender, so it did not make sense to continue the defense of the airport. Why do you call it a failure of special forces? This is a strategic mistake

@02:20 I like that a cool conscript running behind of everyone and shooting friendlies at their back...

Since you talked about the abakan project, it would be good to talk the An 94.

You can't really get rid of recoil (Newton's laws and all that), but you can mitigate loss of accuracy due to uncentered recoil, and you can smoothen it out.

AK-74 was (and still is) known to be MORE controllable compared to M-16 in automatic fire. Mechanical accuracy was to be within Russian equivalent of 5MOA which is near-lineball to US requirement for army rifles. The reason behind starting works on increasing accuracy had to do with increasing hit probability from UNSTABLE POSITIONS. AK-74 has a pattern of behavior in burst fire: first round on target, second high and to the right, third close to target but still higher and to the right. If held in a certain way, that behaviour is reduced, but when in an instable position (prone on a side, half-crouch on the move, quick pop-up shooting) it's not feasible, and that is something Russians wanted to improve upon. US moving away from full-auto proved to be a useless idea: they returned back to it in M-4A1 GRAU designation. Basically Russian equivalent to US "M" designations for military equipment. Actual reason for A545 and A762 being issued to SpetsNaz only is simple: those guys are trained sufficiently well to be able to take advantage of the lower-recoiling weapon. It's a long-proven fact that in most cases, soldiers can't fully realize the existing mechanical accuracy of their service rifles in combat due to combat stress and general firing skill. As a result the simple logic dictates that the extra precision would be simply lost on them as they'd not be able to realize the potential. Given the relative size of the general infantry vs SpetsNaz, it stands to reason why that's the case that so few were ordered compared to AK-12. The rifle shown doesn't feature a suppressor. It's actually simply a LONGER muzzle brake compensator. As to your comment that combat shifted to long-range accurate single-shot fire? Sorry dude but that applies only to Afghanistan and its long-distances. Engagements in Ukraine shown otherwise: LOTS of close-range combat indeed. Absolute SHITTON of forest combat where ranges are less than 40 yards, many simple point-blank. In fact the only time when long-range fire is used is at extended-distance street fighting when enemy has a high position on top of or at high floors of a building. Out in the open field, it's mostly automatic grenade launchers and artillery. Military combat ranges vary wildly and as a former infantryman you should know that depending on location it can be either 20 feet, 500 yards and everything in between.

The assault on the Airport outside Kiev did not failed. The Airport was taken and held (secured). The Russians had re-suplying issues and decided to abandon the Airport. Also, the storming units did not have enough fire power (tanks) to hold the airport for very long. So... Check your facts.

I remember tearing up Battlefield 4 with my Trusty AEK971. Best weapon in the game by FAR

AEK-971 and AN-94 are by far the best assault rifles out there. Nothing can compete with those legends

"failed military operation at hostomel airport" lmao, you mean by a force of 200 reppelling amd destroying a force of 1200 behind enemy lines and holding out for over 24 hours after that with only 17 kia? what kind of joke world are you living in bro

The KORD 6P67 looks like if the MP5A3 and the AK-107 had a baby.

Does it help them get slaughtered at the Kiev airport?

AK-107,108 and 109 had a similar counter balanced system to reduce recoil. They saw very little production because of the same problems of AEK: Added complexity, higher price and reduced reliability.

Ah wow this brings me back. 2011, Gulf of Oman. Was with the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Division. Our guys hated running into these in CQC, and general urban fighting. Rpm mixed with low recoil was a deadly mixture. I always preferred the 416 so it didn't bother me.

“Failed air assault of Gostomel airport” - if by “failed” you mean “took the airport and held it till the help arrived” - sure.

Damn Cappy isn't getting rest with those Videos Keep it up bro.

I LOVE the AEK-971. It might not even be that great of a weapon, but I LOVE the engineering behind it.

Back when I fought in France on operation metro 2014 this gun kept me alive. My Compensator and trusty potato grib did me much miner than anticipated.

bro..it was not a failed air assault , VDV took the airport but lost it later due to not being reinforced.

I did Basic at Ft. Sill in 1995. We qualified with A2's but the Armorer had a couple A1's that he would let us use on the range. Took some kicks to the Kevlar by NCO's for getting too wild with those. Lotta fun the A1 full auto.

6:41 it could be because of logistics also, the ammo would be used up way too quickly.

2:22 Actual Angry WarThunder player moment

3:40 no wonder it never took off, who was the nucklehead that thought having to pull the trigger 3 times before the gun fired was a good idea????

I love the volume of new videos coming out!!!

“…itwas adopted to fill an incredibly small niche, something that would not likely happen in western militaries…” You mean like US SF using special 1911s, or a million other examples of custom guns used by western special operations units?

In the newer A545/ Kord 6P67 and in its other derivatives have simplified counter balancing recoil system in which the two counter moving pistons are concentric i.e. one inside the other so now when disassembled the whole working mechanism can be taken out in a single piece like in AK. So beside the counter balancing recoil system, the bolt carrier group is similar to AK while external is made out of stamped steel. So I think it is simplified and provides enough performance improvement to warrant adoption. With optics attached and with its low recoil it will be easier to hit fleeting targets while also more accurate in rapid semi auto. But the Russian Military doesn't have the money to do so. Instead of wasting money on AK12 they could have gotten AK74 parts modernisation like M4 sopmod while replacing it completely or supplementing it with A545 later. The original Abakan intention was to give AEK971 to everybody while spestnaz and other special units get AN94. But the thing is AN94's hyper burst is more beneficial to regular troops while its maintenance requires the skill of elite troops and is much more expensive. So they should have selected AEK971 for further development while making do with modernised AK74 as mentioned above. One of the reasons for AN94 complication is the whole mechanism doesn't have enough space to achieve mechanical simplicity, during the trials there was another rifle Stechkin's TKB-0146 which has a hyper burst and was in third place in Abakan trials but was rejected because it was bullpup. Similarly before the Ratnik trials there is A-91m family of rifles which has been under production and use. Also they have much better simple conventional design like Dragonov MA which is being now developed to replace 9x39 family of firearms and also the ultra compact AKS74U. For 21st century Russians have much better options than AK12 but to cling on to their Kalashnikov heritage lead to wastage of money which can be better put to buying optics for everybody which can be mounted even without picatanny rail using Russian side mount and by adding rails over the handguard.

I do not know how the Russians "failed" in the Gostomel airport operation, since they literally took it and then held it the airport for a month or so.

It seems an insult the new hats compared to their old traditional ones. I like the older look better anyways lol

I’ve used this firearm plenty of times. Deployed in Dawnbreaker, the Siege of Shanghai, and Operation Metro & Operation Locker. Good time. Good rifle.

America: Buying a "military" weapon from SIG that is heavier, less reliable and brings no advantages whatsoever over their last weapon system because they have no clue how to make a new military rifle Russia: Have ultramodern and inovative weapon systems 40 years already

Forgotten Weapons has an interesting video about the Ak-107/Sr-1 which uses a similar recoil compensation system and Ian pulls it apart so you can see just how it works.

AEK 971 AK107 using counter recoil method attached to their piston rods, when the piston move back , the gear motion forces the mechanism to go forward. In contrast The Singaporean ULTIMAX 1000 , NTK 50 HMG and Israeli Negev NG uses Constant recoil mechanism to ease the recoil. Can somebody tell me how the latter works plz?

I can only say that it was one of the best assault rifles in Battlefield 4.

Only a true grunt would do math like "tested over ten years, between 1980 & 1994"

As an ex special forces and testing this gun in Odessa in training , I can state it’s a piece of JUNK like 100 percent of all russian manufactures weaponry and not only.Period.

There has been tests with the Kalashnikov Concern's SR-1 rifles (the counter recoil system implimented in competition rifle) in Europe, see Polenar Tactical and Forgotten Weapons's vids. Some of these tests found QC problems and that the counter recoil system wasn't really all that effective and most of the work was done by the muzzle device. Even then it really wasn't anything special that couldn't be done with modern ARs. Would love to see some western tests on the new Kord rifle, but that probably wont happen any time soon.

As a hardcore battlefield 3 veteran i can say it is the weapon you would actually want to bring to an alien planet

There's also a Russian which is naturally silent without a suppressor, and no recoil. Idk how it works

actually! the US DOES have a design similar to this, the KRISS Vector has a recoil mitigating design that when you shoot, the slider goes down and some say they can hold it with 1 hand and not fall off

Ian McCollum made a video about that system and came to the conclusion that the muzzle break is the key item and not the counter recoil system.

"failed air assault" - are you kidding me? 200 people landed from dozens of helicopters, while losing 2/3, captured the airport and resisted the enemy's superior forces for 3 days until the main forces approached. is this a fail? Seriously?

Because it was tested and they found out that only the muzzle brake makes a significant difference. A bulky, needlessly complicated design that could be make much better.

1) Not special forces, but the Airborne Forces. 2) They have an AK-12 in their hands. 3) Capture the airport and hold it for several weeks = fail the assault?

Gostomel airport assault didn't not fail dude. Airport was taken, secured and later the VDV pulled back from it when Russian started the pull back operation from Kiev region. The assault was a complete success, don't know where you got the info that it failed?

I can't really imagine a situation where a rifle's recoil would be the key factor for strategic efficiency 🤷‍♂️

Polenar Tactical did a video on this and its CRAZY how little recoil it has compared to an AR-15.

In theory, the Soviets were right - higher rate of fire, if controllable, is a "force multiplier" in that it increases the per unit firepower of infantry units. This is pretty much the lesson of WW1 and WW2, which was that slower firing, more powerful and more accurate guns were inferior to the overwhelming firepower of faster firing, less accurate and (potentially) weaker ammunition: WW1 taught the importance of machine guns and WW2 taught that lower calibres and higher rates of fire were preferable to higher calibres with lower rates of fire. The Americans went backwards in their solution to poor discipline with automatic weapons by reducing their rate of fire to improve accuracy. It a trade-off between rate of fire and accuracy. The Soviet solution was more progressive (at least in theory) as it adds accuracy without trading off the rate of fire advantages. The issue was that they weren't able to develop something that was cost effective to widely implement. That doesn't mean their overall approach was wrong.

It's interesting to see that so many weapons tried to replace the Kalashnikov, but never were successful.

ian mccollum had proven that the balanced recoil system is overhyped and doesn't do much

Bro, they weren't carrying that at Gostomel and it wasn't "failed" 🤦‍♂

As a veteran in Call of Duty, I can say this rifle is the rifle of the gods, most likely presented to man by angels, using alien engineering, with the details covered up by evil dark wizard reptiles! 10/10 would pay for as DLC!

>«failed» air assault Took the airport, hold it, waited for reinforcements, retreated. It was a succesful operation.

Ah yes. AEK. My source of most salt I always had in BF4 even when I was better than half of enemy team that used these while using random gun that I was mastering just for all unlocks.

Much respect to Chris: his Russian accent keeps getting worse and worse but he doesn't let that stop his impressions!

fun fact: AK-100 series have 3 bars aks AK-107 The 5.45 version AK-108 5.56 AK-109 7.62

That is one all rounder of a gun.

Failed air assault? Dude they took the airport and put the russian flag there.. Now assault by airborne units past the irpin were failed,but russians still controled ghostomel airport until north front was closed.

"A successor variant of the AEK-971 line is designated as the KORD 6P67" "The first orders for the KORD 6P67 rifle were announced in mid-2020, after being adopted in 2018. It is believed these orders total about 500 assault rifles that were destined for Spetsnaz units and some Airborne personnel.[9]"

If I’m not mistaken, which I could be, didn’t they also note that soldiers shot abnormally less due to surrounding machine gun fire. Saying that they felt their single/burst fire made little to no difference

As a veteran from the 2007 Karkand battle, the addition of this weapon in the 2011 and 2020 battle was a huge boon

Task & Purpose needs to do a video on Russia’s Air Force performance in Ukraine. It has underperformed drastically even though it is larger and more advanced than Ukraine’s and has a land boarders relatively close to Moscow. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq it took the U.S. less than a month to get air supremacy and it’s overseas. Is it really worse than we think?

Russian Mobilized Infantryman: Do I get one? Supply officer with a box of rotten AK-47s: ...