Enhance Your KRISS Vector SDP with Strike Industries' New Handguard
If you’re the proud owner of the unique KRISS Vector SDP (the version with a 6.5″ barrel) you’re probably lacking some much-needed space in terms of areas for attachments like lights, lasers, and verticle foregrips. Strike Industries has just announced their latest aftermarket accessory specifically for the KRISS Vector SDP with their new Stike Handguard featuring M-LOK attachment sections.
More from Strike Industries @ TFB:
Enhance Your KRISS Vector SDP with Strike Industries’ New Handguard
The Strike Handguard for KRISS Vector SDP adds more functionality and usability to the Vector platform with M-LOK attachments. This handguard mounts quickly and directly to all KRISS Vector lower receivers but is specifically designed for the SDP model with a 6.5” barrel. Add enhanced ergonomics and manipulation of your weapon with SI style. Many M-LOK or SI LINK accessories can be attached and mounted along the handguard at 3, 6, and 9 o’clock positions giving you more options that will transform the function and the look of your Vector. This Strike Handguard fits suppressors up to 1.90” (48.26mm) in diameter and is also designed to work with Vector CRB square or round barrel shrouds. Machined from 6061-T6 aluminum, this 1-pc free float handguard is designed to minimize weight and increase strength. The Strike Handguard for KRISS Vector SDP will complete the look and add functionality with a simple drop-in installation choice when it comes to enhancing and customizing your KRISS Vector in a limited aftermarket marketplace.
COMPATIBILITY:
-Fits suppressors up to 1.90” (48.26mm) in diameter
-Vector SDP/SBR w/ 6.5” barrel models
-Vector SDP/SBR w/ 5.5” barrel models using linear compensator, silencer or muzzle device with all ports past front of Strike handguard
-Vector CRB
-Vector 22 CRB
-Vector square or round barrel shrouds
NOT COMPATIBLE: Vector SDP/SBR w/ 5.5” barrel models when used with only barrel and no muzzle devices with ports past front of Strike handguard, linear compensator or silencer past front of Strike handguard.
The new Strike Handguard for the KRISS Vector SDP will add a bit more functionality and useability to the platform by introducing some much-needed M-LOK rail space and should be easy enough to install for most owners as it mounts directly to the Vector’s lower without the need for any modifications. What’s also cool is that it allows the user to partially tuck a suppressor underneath the handguard giving you just a tiny bit of extra rail space to grip and also protecting a portion of your suppressor. The new Strike Handguard for the KRISS Vector SDP is available now for $109.95 directly from Strike Industries.
- Mounts quickly and directly to KRISS Vector lower receiver
- Enhanced ergonomics and manipulation of weapon with SI style
- M-LOK rail system at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock positions for accessory mounting options
- Fits suppressors up to 1.90” (48.26mm) in diameter
- Designed to work with Vector CRB square or round barrel shrouds
- 1-pc free float handguard design to minimize weight and increase strength
- Handguard machined from 6061-T6 aluminum
- Drop-in installation
We are committed to finding, researching, and recommending the best products. We earn commissions from purchases you make using the retail links in our product reviews. Learn more about how this works.
Reloader SCSA Competitor Certified Pilot Currently able to pass himself off as the second cousin twice removed of Joe Flanigan. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ballisticaviation/
More by Luke C.
![[SHOT 2026] Navy Arms Raids France's MilSurp Supply](https://cdn-fastly.thefirearmblog.com/media/2026/01/22/04271/post.jpg?size=350x220)
Comments
Join the conversation
The best way to enhance a KRISS Vector is to sell it and buy a CZ Scorpion with a half dozen spare mags and a case of ammo.
The Strike Industries HG requires you to remove it before separating the receivers or re-installing the receivers. This is conveniently left out of all product literature and reviews. Some claim to be able to do it without removing the HG but even the manufacturer admitted to this.
The ergonomics and feel of the Vector isn't terrible. I suspect all of those bashing the Vector are gamers/folks that watch videos/forum/subreddits of people bashing it and just go along with it. The Vector doesn't feel like an AR15 or MP5. The Banshee, BT, SIG MPX, and others are basically AR15 or MP5 clones with slight tweaks/differences. The Vector still feels like a carbine with ergonomics that favor a right handed shooter. When you completely disassemble it and get a feel for its design, it is more like a giant 1911 with a Glock mag catch system (complete clone of the Glock mag release down to the catch itself and the pin spring used) and a barrel that is pinned to a trunion that is riveted to the giant-1911 receiver. The bolt moves on a slider that goes downward, which is the biggest difference from any other firearm system.
There are 3 ways to get a SBR Vector and having learned from experience, the best way (not necessarily the fastest or cheapest, but rather the best) is to buy the 6.5" enhanced pistol, go through the Form 1 process, and buy a stock once the Form 1 is approved. This gives you a thick 17mm diameter 6.5" threaded barrel.
The other way is to buy the CRB 16" carbine with a thinner barrel (9mm measures 15mm diameter), do the Form 1 process, and then either go to Kriss for the SBR replacement barrel/trunion at a sizable fee (but you get the 5.5/6.5 OEM barrel), or find the 1 or 2 gunsmiths in the US that are willing to cut/crown/thread the CRB barrel. You end up with a thinner barrel that is threaded and cut to the length you desire and you don't have a Nitride/QPQ treated end of the barrel.
The last way is probably the easiest and that's to buy a SBR via Form 4 transfer. It will take the longest but is both the least expensive and simplest route. It will just take longer at 270+ days for approval.
Things I noticed right away are that the receiver pins are loose, which can affect accuracy since the barrel is part of the lower receiver while the optics/rail are on the upper receiver. Kriss used clones of the HK Large Pins, except Kriss pins are 0.271" diameter while HK are 0.274"-0.275" but otherwise they are interchangeable. The HK pins are a better fit but the pin above the trigger will still rattle since it is not a load-bearing pin. I found using a -010 O-Ring on the Kriss pin is the best solution for that particular pin. For the other 3, the KNS HK Large Pins work better.
The barrel is not free-floating. It is actually rubbing on its sides on the lower polymer frame. In some disassembly videos I can see the barrel rubbed down to the raw metal (black oxide finish is gone) suggesting during operation it is indeed touching the polymer.
Accuracy seems poor at 100 yd, we're talking 12" to 21" groups. The SBR seems to have gotten tighter groups at 100 yd in one sample while the CRB was better at other ranges. I have yet to see any data samples of folks shooting the CRB without the dumb 10.6 oz shroud (which adds 2 pressure points to the barrel plus the extra weight).
The accessories have all been dead weight so far to me. Folding stocks look great on photos and on paper but they add 8 oz or more of dead weight and the shortest collapsed stock length gets longer by 1 to 2 inches or more. The vertical foregrips and other handguards were designed to prevent you from inadvertently dropping the mag while gripping the base. No one from what I could tell, bothered to try other mag catch options (Except one dude on YouTube that smartly took off the paddle but kept the 2 screws for some reason). Kriss used to use Glock catch #1981 which is the OE 10mm/45 mag catch (which is the extended catch used on 9mm/40 Glocks) so I tried the OEM Glock 9mm/40 mag catch (too short), Vickers 9mm/40 mag catch (which was perfect), and the Vickers 10mm/45 mag catch (too long). The Vickers was great because they come in FDE/Tan and are all rounded at the edges, and the right length. With the 9mm Vickers mag catch, I could give the frame the death squeeze and not drop the mag. The only way to drop the mag was to consciously hit the mag catch button to drop the mag. Problem solved, no need for handguards/grips.