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I think that's a bit of a tangent, as the British rifle above is not the same caliber as the HK417, and it doesn't use the HK designed piston system. The KS1/L403A1 is a traditional Stoner operating system in 5.56mm.
The US Army and US Air Force did buy about 8,000 HK417 based M110A1 rifles. A niche rifle, and now with the XM7 being adopted by the Army, I'm not sure how much of a DMR program using 7.62 is really going to be pursued outside of specialized units.
The marines are using the HK416
The original comment compared the KS-1 to a HK417, and I pointed out the difference in both caliber and operating system between those two. The HK416 is an irrelevant tangent.