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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.
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 ...
MP 40 Submachine gun PPSh-41 Submachine gun PPS-43 Submachine gun Sa vz. 23/25 Submachine gun Škorpion vz. 61 Submachine gun. MP 40: used early in the War. [342] Sten Mk II: used early in the War. Lanchester Mk. 1: used early in the War. [346] [347] Thompson M1A1: used early in the War. [348] [349] MAT-49: used early in the War. [350] Uzi ...
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.
Also known as the Volksmaschinenpistole ("people's machine pistol"), the weapon was based on the Sten Mk II submachine gun, except for its vertical magazine; some had additional pistol grips. The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse.
Thompson submachine gun; Sten; Sterling submachine gun; M50 Reising; Owen gun; Madsen M-50; M3 submachine gun; Machine gun. Bren light machine gun; Lewis gun; Vickers ...
Submachine gun Rhodesia: Issued primarily to Rhodesian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Northwood R-76 Submachine gun Rhodesia: Owen Gun [28] Submachine gun Australia: Sa 25 (vz. 48b) Submachine gun Czechoslovakia: Some of local manufacture. Sten [28] Submachine gun United Kingdom: Mk II. Sterling [24] Submachine gun United Kingdom: Uzi [29 ...
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