After £90 million and two years of deliberation, select branches of The British Armed Forces have a brand new high precision assault rifle: The KS-1 (L403A1).
Join Jonathan as we get an exclusive hands-on with a trials KS-1 rifle and a chance to examine the firearm in true #WhatisthisWeapon fashion.
0:00 Intro
0:15 KS-1 (L403A1)
0:35 Why this Weapon?
1:54 Project Hunter
3:05 Firearm Optics
4:01 ELEANOR (insert Beatles pun)
4:30 Barrel
5:23 Suppressor
6:56 Additional Details
9:30 Hammer & Bolt
11:05 Knight’s ‘Stoner’
12:00 British Army Usage
12:52 Firearm ASMR
13:04 Outro
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Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
WD40 NEEDED
For the wider British Army? Or for special forces?
A great looking well made weapon Eugine Stoner knew his business.
What about British contract Glock AR-15? (GR-115F)
just goes to show bullpups are nice in theory…in actual use…not so much
Seems like all guns are just evolving into AR platforms now 😅 just like Carcinisation everything is evolving into crabs. 😂
About time.
Sell these to Hlasgow youth and Belfast youth so they can beat U.S. guys in competition.
The resulting drunken gun crime is part and parcel to being a modern society.
Get with it Lord of the Rings ; Robin Hood nerds.
Unban handguns. Unban ARs.
Do not sell to Afghans or Bakis
77 gr MK 262 Mod 1. can expand out to 250 yards with this bah-stahd; Giles.
Let’s see you do a timed field strip, turn the lights out and re assemble in the dark.
Should bin 5.56 and have 7.62 short and 7.62 NATO (DMR) version, much better options. Could have a better choice of optic too.
Much more ergonomic than the SA80. No fumbling for change lever/S and mag release etc.
AR 15 type doesn’t surprise. Surprisingly it’s not a Colt Canada made rifle. Vortex is not the choice I’d make due to failure rates. Elcan much better. Possibly as usual lowest bidder 🤡
How stupid. Good luck cleaning the fouling.
Us Civilians in Canada were getting 0.5 MOA with these bad boys.
They pretty much ALL shoot half inch at 100 yards with match ammo.
Damn good.
Best D.I. ARs money can buy.
Americans: Oh another AR15
British Troops: Thank god.
Seriously? UK adopted the PoS AR-15?! Why am I not surprised…not only is 5.56 obsolete but so is direct gas impingement. Wow.stupified. well at least some American politicians got rich off of British foolishness.
the "4 prong"? 4:48 look like a 3 prong lol why is that am i missing somthing???
Embrace tradition
Direct Impingement- how disappointing.
Manufactured in Florida
Damn, I live a couple of miles from knights facility, you can hear them shooting full auto every morning…
Lamest AR ever
I drive by the Knight factory often one of my neighbors works there as an quality control inspector. Its interesting that there are 3 major weapons manufacturers within 10 miles of each other in Brevard County.
Excellent review thank you 👍🏻
Jonathan, is all of your funding private or is it partially subsidized by government funding to the armory? Excuse American spelling.
Did usa go with sig for there new rifles?😂 Uk goes for us made rifle
laughs in american. blnt
England, it’s a felony to even think about one of these. Meanwhile in America I got like 5 Ar-15s propped up on top of a shoe box full of magic the gathering cards and warhammer figures
Interesting…..😊
The Brits are dropping the money on some high end rifles
The British have AR15s, Americans are going to buy more to be prepared.
That squeaking the suppressor made at 5:30 was actually the bald eagle inside the rifle trying to come out
AR-15's are semi automatic. This has a third pin hole so it must have a auto sear
The civilian version is mostly the AR 10 instead of the SR 25 here in the states but I kinda like the SR 25 but not much difference except that parts are not as available, wish they would standardize the 7.62-308 platform,it would make it much easier to build one from scratch and you wouldn't have to worry about parts fitment
So what are Tier-1 UKSF SMU’s going to do with the MCX-Virtus and Rattler Series of guns?
Good lord, that is a good looking, very high quality AR
Had to click on this to say one important thing, that rifle is not based on the AR 15, which is a civilian weapon, the US military doesn't use AR 15s they use M 16. Or the M4 carbine as well as an assortment of specialty weapons for snipers,etc but not the AR 15 which is not an assault rifle anyway and definitely not a weapon of war