Project Abakan (Абакан Автомат)

Project Abakan -- In 1978 the Soviet Military started up a program to develop a new Assault rifle to replace the aging AK-47 series and go along with their new AK-74 Assault Rifle. These Experiments eventually lead to the adoption of the AN-94 Assault Rifle in 1994 TKB-0111 Korobov - TKB-0136-3M Afanasyev -- ó TKB-0146 Experimental Assault Rifle --