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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.
1.5 Submachine guns. 1.6 Grenades. 1.7 Infantry anti-tank weapons. ... Sterling submachine gun [12] – Main submachine gun; Grenades. Mills bomb [13] – In use ...
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 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.
Both Soviet PPS submachine guns and Chinese Type 54s. [2]: A-80 vz.61 Czechoslovakia: Used by spies. [3] Type 98 submachine gun Soviet Union North Korea: Resembles the PP-19-01 Vityaz and PP-19 Bizon but with an optical sight and a flash suppressor. Used by special forces. [6] Sterling submachine gun United Kingdom [5] Shotguns KS-23 Soviet ...
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.
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.
Submachine guns Sterling submachine gun [43] 9×19mm Parabellum: Submachine gun United Kingdom: Rare. Unknown how it got there. Sten [44] [25] 9×19mm Parabellum: Submachine gun United Kingdom: Possibly leftover from the 1948 arab-israeli war: Sa vz. 23 [25] [45] 7.62×25mm Tokarev: Submachine gun Czechoslovak Socialist Republic: MAB 38 [46] 9 ...