AEK-971 - Russian assault rifle designed by Sergei Koksharov. Rejected by the Russian army, but used by the subordinate formations MVD. At the beginning of the eighties in the Soviet Union launched a competition for a codename for a new project Abakan assault rifle. The new gun was still firing cartridge 5.45 x 39 mm, but the scattering of firing missiles at the series was supposed to be 5-10 times lower than in the case of the AK-74. Additionally required that the new rifle could