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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 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 Lanchester submachine gun: Sterling Armaments Company: 9×19mm Parabellum United Kingdom: 1940 SMG LAD machine gun: NIPSMVO: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 1942 Other Lehnar submachine gun: Juan Lehnar: 9×19mm Parabellum Argentina: 1930 SMG Lercker pistol: Carlo Cuppini and Cesare Lercker.25 ACP Italy: 1950 MP Lettet–Forsøgs ...
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 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.
A Sterling L2A3 (Mark 4) submachine gun.ROF Fazakerley manufactured 164,000 Sterlings between 1956 and 1960, after which production of the weapon ended permanently. ROF Fazakerley was a Royal Ordnance Factory rifle manufacturing plant in Fazakerley, Liverpool, which manufactured small arms such as the Sten and Sterling [1] [2] [3] submachine guns and Lee–Enfield rifle during and after World ...
Sterling submachine gun; Suomi KP/-31; T. Thompson submachine gun; Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927; Type 100 submachine gun; TZ-45; U. United Defense M42; W. BSA Welgun; Z ...
The BSA Experimental Model 1949 was a submachine gun of British origin intended to replace the Sten submachine gun.The weapon was fed from a 32-round box magazine inserted in the side and had an unusual twist-action bakelite-covered handguard.