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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 .
C1 SMG: Submachine gun: 1958-1988 United Kingdom Canada: License produced Sterling SMG FN C1 and FN C1A1: Battle rifle: 1955-1987 Belgium Canada: License produced by Canadian Arsenals Limited FN C2 and C2A1 SAW: Squad Automatic Weapon: 1955-1987 Belgium Canada: C1 modified for SAW role C3 and C3A1: Sniper rifle: 1972-2003 United Kingdom ...
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.
It was slowly withdrawn from British Army service in the 1960s and replaced by the Sterling SMG; Canada also phased out the Sten, replacing it with the C1 SMG. The Sten was one of the few weapons that the State of Israel could produce domestically during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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.
SMG Arsenal submachine gun: Arsenal: 9×20 mm SR Browning Estonia: 1926 SMG ASALT 96: Uzina Mecanică Sadu 9×19mm Parabellum Romania: 1996 SMG ASMI: Lokesh Machines Limited 9×19mm Parabellum India: 2021-present SMG Austen submachine gun: Diecasters W. T. Carmichael 9×19mm Parabellum Australia: 1942 SMG Bechowiec-1: Bataliony Chłopskie: 9× ...
British smoke grenade with various markings, including "Grenade Hand Smoke Screening Training L83A1" designation. The L number ("L" standing for Land Service) [1] or weapon identity number [2] system is a numerical designation system used for the type classification of British Army weapons and related stores.
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-").