Quote Originally Posted by Warsaw View Post
Nope.

AN-94 is an entirely new design. AEK-917 is also a new design. The only relation it has to the AK family is the BARS that the AK-107 and AK-108 employ. Those AKs are also not pure AKs, they are Alexandrov Kalashnikovs, meaning two designers contributed to their design.

It was logical for Bad Company to pick the AEK because the game takes place in the near future, is completely fictional, and the Russians have been looking to replace the AK-74 for a long time now. The AN-94 is too expensive, so the AEK is a good middle alternative. It's also worth noting that the Russian troops you encounter in BC2 may be considered Special Forces at any rate.

Battlefield 3 will likely have an AKM or AK-74 because it is more grounded in current events than Bad Company is. The very presence of the M4 over the M416 or XM8 an the M240 over the classic M249 tells us that much.
Just look at those guns, man. Look at them. They are obviously derived from the AKs in design, and last I checked, both were listed as AK derivatives on Wikipedia.