AK 400 Series - A Kalashnikov Pre-Production Prototype?

By Bob Owens | 3:26 PM | May 02, 2016

While in Russia, Larry Vickers got his hands on the Kalashnikov AK-400, a 7.62x39mm assault rifle.

It looks an awful lot like the AK-12, formerly known as the AK 200, which is one of the two rifles—along with the A-545—competing to becoming the official service rifle of the Russian military.

Is the AK-400 just the final version of the AK-12?

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.