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The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun (SMG). It was tested by the British Army in 1944–1945, but did not start to replace the Sten until 1953. A successful and reliable design, it remained standard issue in the British Army until 1994, [18] when it began to be replaced by the L85A1, a bullpup assault rifle.
The STEN (or Sten gun) is a British submachine gun chambered in 9×19mm which was used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and during the Korean War. The Sten paired a simple design with a low production cost, facilitating mass production to meet the demand for submachine guns.
The Sterling Engineering Company Ltd was an arms manufacturer based in Dagenham, famous for manufacturing the Sterling submachine gun (L2A3), ArmaLite AR-18 and Sterling SAR-87 assault rifles and parts of Jaguar cars. The company went bankrupt in 1988.
The Lanchester is a submachine gun ("machine carbine") manufactured by the Sterling Armaments Company between 1941 and 1945. It is an evolution from MP28/II and was manufactured in two versions, Mk.1 and Mk.1*; the latter was a simplified version of the original Mk.1, with no fire selector and simplified sights.
One feature found on most MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns is an aluminum, steel, or Margolit (a variation of Bakelite) resting bar under the barrel. This was used to steady the weapon when firing over the side of open-top armored personnel carriers such as the Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track .
It shares many design features with the British Sterling submachine gun. Unlike both the Sterling and its predecessor, the Owen, the F1 has a removable wooden butt and pistol grip. A curved, detachable 34-round box magazine is inserted in a magazine housing on top of the barrel, similar to the earlier Owen gun. It used the same magazine as the ...
SMG Lanchester submachine gun: Sterling Armaments Company: 9×19mm Parabellum United Kingdom: 1940 SMG LAD machine gun: NIPSMVO: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 1942 Other Lehnar submachine gun: Juan Lehnar: 9×19mm Parabellum Argentina: 1930 SMG Lercker pistol: Carlo Cuppini and Cesare Lercker.25 ACP Italy: 1950 MP Lettet–Forsøgs ...
The BSA Experimental Model 1949 was a submachine gun of British origin intended to replace the Sten submachine gun.The weapon was fed from a 32-round box magazine inserted in the side and had an unusual twist-action bakelite-covered handguard.