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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.
Sten [11] – Used very early on, replaced in 1960; Sterling submachine gun [12] – Main submachine gun; Grenades. Mills bomb [13] – In use until the 1970s;
During World War II, engineers George Lanchester and George William Patchett oversaw the manufacture of the Lanchester submachine gun. Patchett afterwards went on to design the Patchett machine carbine which, after a competitive trial in 1947, was adopted by the British Army in 1953 as the L2A1 Sterling submachine gun, replacing the Sten gun ...
The "Experimental Machine Carbine, 1949" (EMC). Chambered in the same 9 mm Parabellum cartridge as the Sten with a side-mounted 32-round box magazine, shared by the Sten and later the Sterling. The EMC used blowback action but cycled, faster than the Sterling and all of the earlier Sten variants, at 600 rounds per minute.
DUX submachine gun: Oviedo Military Arsenal 9×19mm Parabellum Spain: 1953 SMG EDDA submachine gun: Only one prototype made .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire Argentina: 1970s SMG EMP 44: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: 1944 SMG Erma EMP: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum 9×23mm Largo 7.63×25mm Mauser Germany: 1931 SMG ETVS submachine gun
Sten bayonet mk I; Sterling submachine gun; Suomi KP/-31; T. Thompson submachine gun; Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927; Type 100 submachine gun; TZ-45; U. United Defense M42 ...
A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").