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MAC-11/9 with 32-round magazine and suppressor. A specific suppressor was developed for the MAC-11, which used wipes as baffles, instead of the reflex baffles that Mitchell WerBell III created for the MAC-10. Though wipes are less durable than reflex baffles, they had the advantage of proving quieter for the MAC-11.
Sten Mk II magazine insert. The Sten's magazine, which, like the Lanchesters, derived from the MP28, originally to use its magazines, which incorporated the faults of the MP28 magazine. [22] The magazine had two columns of 9mm cartridges in a staggered arrangement, merging at the top to form a column.
Sten: Royal Small Arms Factory BSA and others 9×19mm Parabellum United Kingdom: 1941-present (depending on version) SMG Sterling submachine gun: Sterling Armaments Company Royal Ordnance Factories: 9×19mm Parabellum United Kingdom: 1953-1988 SMG Steyr AUG PARA: Steyr Mannlicher. Thales Australia, Lithgow Facility SME Ordnance. 9×19mm ...
It was interchangeable with the shorter 32-round Sten magazine. A magazine loading tool was needed to load both 32- and 50-round magazines more easily. One of the two magazine pouches had a special pocket on the front for this loader. Mk.1s featured a front blade sight with adjustable rifle-type sights, marked between 100 and 600 yards.
SIG M1920 (Locally produced copy with a downward facing magazine called the "Flower Mouth Machine-gun," or 花机关) [70] [71] Steyr MP34 [72] PPD-40 (Received as aid from Soviet Union) Thompson submachine gun (American Lend-Lease and local production) [73] [74]
Military Armament Corporation (MAC) was an American manufacturer of small arms, co-founded by Gordon Ingram, an engineer and gun designer, and Mitchell WerBell, owner of SIONICS, which manufactured gun sound suppressors. It is known for manufacturing the MAC-10 and MAC-11 machine pistols in the 1970s.
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.
A closed bolt requires the second step of cycling the action to remove the last round in the chamber (unless the weapon features an automatic hold-open device). It is essential to remove a loaded magazine before performing maintenance, or trying to cycle or close the bolt (as is often done to keep the weapon clean when not in use).