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Below is a transalated report of the Abakan assault rifle trials. Various weapons were tested with the AN-94 being the winner, but another rifle listed as the "AO-63", Designed by Simonov & Tkachev fired around 6,000RPM when the 2-round burst mode was selected. Does anyone here know this rifle?. PS: The AO-63 is listed here below as the "SC-63" Original Sources: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.sinopa.ee/sor/bo001/bo04av/bo04av03/01abakan/abakan.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25D0%2590%25D0%259E-63%2B5,45%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/guns/article/guns/guns-067.htm

Nice Find! Its mad to see how these things end up, The money/training/expertise to operate them, and 20/30 years later(maybe less) they end up in the dumps. Even if they havent seen service.

Isn't that is the pilot who was traped in F22 and rescue had to cut him loose ? :D I thought that, Looks loke they glued the canopy back with RAM coated superglue for budgetary reasons as it is expensive:D

Man-portable nordenfelt gun of the Soviet era that apparently provided 'near minigun' performance by combining the ROF but to be suitable for a soldier to handle. It uses the 7.62x39mm round but the ammo supply was limited as the weapon is magazine fed. The Pribor-3B assault rifle still worked but was also quite hard to control due to the recoil force, Cartridge ejection is downwards BEHIND the magazine area as the weapon uses a gas/recoil operaton similar to that used in the AN94 Abakan assault rifle currently used by Russian special forces. Another variant of the Pribor-3B was made from AKM smilar parts to ease production. The Pribor-3B would be more practical as a tripod mounted machine gun if its possible to make a belt feed device for it.