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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.
L34A1 9mm Submachine Gun (Silenced version of L2A3) [74] L35 L35A1 Shielder Vehicle Launched Scatterable Mine System [87] L35A1/A2 Blue Signal Smoke Hand Grenade [164] [9] L35A1 Battle Sound Simulator [60] [122] [123] L36 L36A1/A2 Green Signal Smoke Hand Grenade [165] L37 L37A1/A2 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun (Variant of L7 GPMG for AFVs ...
L2A3 Sterling United Kingdom: Submachine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum: In ceremonial use with the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps. [4] Introduced in 1959. Partially replaced with the M16 in 1968, with full withdrawal from service following the introduction of the AUG and MP5. Assault rifles & Battle rifles LMT MARS-L. Modular Assault Rifle System ...
Sterling L2A3/Mark 4 submachine gun [8] L34A1/Mk.5 Sterling-Patchett (sound-suppressed version of the Sterling L2A3) [12] Carl Gustaf m/45 (or its Egyptian-produced version, dubbed the "Port Said") [8] Škorpion vz. 61 [13] [14] [8] Spectre M4 [8] Walther MPL [8] Beretta Model 12 [5] Steyr MPi 69 (Austrian-produced submachine gun similar in ...
By 2025, these stocks will be running low and Russia’s capacity to forge barrels is insufficient to meet its future needs. The result is that through 2025 the accuracy of Russian guns, and the ...
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 ...
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.