Intended to defeat unsheltered manpower, including flak vest-clad personnel, fuel-oil tanks, lightly armored materiel and, when used as an assault rifle, to accomplish fire missions at night without revealing the firer's location by the weapon crack or flash. The system employs the modular configuration, is unified to the maximum extent with the Kalashnikov assault rifle and the GP-25 underbarrel grenade launcher, combines the properties of the assault rifle and grenade launcher and allows selective fire and single grenade launches from a common trigger. The assault rifle is a gas-operated weapon. The grenade launcher is fitted with a double-action firing mechanism, is loaded from the muzzle and unloaded by pressing the extractor.
The system is manufactured in the following versions:
- assault weapon (assault rifle with grenade launcher)
- special assault rifle with a silencer, an optical sight and a night sight mount
