(Red Scorpion) - Russian Assault Rifle

The assault rifle, as it looks like in the film Red Scorpion. This was made from a South African R1 (FN FAL) battle rifle.

The large assault rifle used prominently in the 1989 movie Red Scorpion by Nikolai Rachenko (Dolph Lundgren) is an FN FAL/Vektor R1 mocked up to resemble a fictitious experimental Soviet assault rifle. The FN FAL used in the movie has been modified with twin barrels, a custom stock, the pistol grip from a Vektor SS-77 general purpose machine gun, an enlarged magazine/foregrip and a Lewis gun's drum magazine mounted on top. Upon closer inspection only the lower barrel can actually be seen firing; presumably this is because building a weapon that could fire from two barrels and fed from different magazines would be a far more difficult modification, and the discrepancy isn't that noticeable on-screen. Perhaps it was inspired by real 1956 Winchester SALVO rifle, the experiemental double-barreled side-by-side FN FAL chambered in .22 caliber.

Contrary to the legends (originated from here), this has nothing to do with the AO-63, a double-barreled AK-pattern rifle, which even in Russian sources became known in detail only relatively recently; and the existence of which probably simply no one knew in the 80s outside the program team.

The "Russian Assault Rifle" and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Red Scorpion	Dolph Lundgren	Nikolai Rachenko		1989
Red Scorpion	Carmen Argenziano	Colonel Zayas		1989