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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.
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.
Sten: 9×19mm Parabellum: Submachine Gun United Kingdom [65] M3.45 ACP: Submachine Gun United States: Regular and suppressed versions. [26] MP-40: 9×19mm Parabellum: Submachine Gun Nazi Germany [66] Carl Gustaf m/45: 9×19mm Parabellum: Submachine Gun Sweden: Some examples stolen from the Irish Army. [14] United Defense M42: 9×19mm Parabellum ...
These conversion kits included a new 9 mm barrel, replacement bolt and recoil springs, a magazine well adapter for use with British Sten gun 32-round magazines, and a replacement 9 mm Sten magazine of British manufacture. [16]
Lanchester submachine gun – British submachine gun, developed from the German MP28, used by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Sten – simple design, low-cost British submachine gun in service from late 1941 to the end of the war. Around four million produced.
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. [citation needed]
The British Sten submachine gun was taken as the basis for the Austen. [8] The barrel, body and trigger mechanism of the Mark II Sten were copied, while the folding stock and bolt, with separate firing pin and telescopic cover over the return spring, were copied from the German MP40. [8]
The Sputter Gun was a prototype test gun using 7 major components from the WW2 era British Sten submachine gun carbine, along with other specially fabricated parts to make a complete operational firearm. It was designed to circumvent the existing U.S. Federal law defining a machine gun.