The caseless aspect is cool but they really aren't better. The range on these are limited compared to a 40mm NATO chambering and they are slower to operate. There is also a minor potential safety hazard with the fingers in the way of the barrel during loading which has caused accidents in the past. The Russian's standalone variants are far superior to the GP25. The Russians basically want every rifleman to be a grenadier. That has merits but the issue is also that 40mm is way less effective than direct fire, and you get riflemen potentially wasting time on a grenade, not realizing how ineffective it is. The American approach generally is that only the SL having 40mm. The SL does not suck himself into the fight, he keeps aware of the big picture. Consequentially he can't be focusing on direct firing, but he can spot difficult to engage targets and quickly lob some grenades in that direction for spotting and to try and drive them out of cover for others to be able to engage. To me this makes more sense, to have one grenadier with a heavier but more capable platform, and give it to the guy who won't really be fighting all that much.

@@DaveSmith-cp5kj *For 12 years of service in the Russian army, I did not hear anyone in such a way to tear my fingers, it was probably only with the Americans! ;-)*

Your mom kicks...

It’s a caseless round, so it probably has a whole lot more kick than a 320 or a 203

Tim Bolt Nahh but there are replica's of them for the airsoft market.

The AN-94 is also the only rifle in Russian service capable of mounting a UBGL and a bayonet simultaneously