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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.
The CETME C2 has many design features that make it appear as if it was a Sterling SMG however, none of the CETME C2's parts are interchangeable with that of a Sterling. [4] It is open bolt and is often fitted with a 30-round or 32-round straight magazine with the magazine well not being fully perpendicular with the receiver.
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.
Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun: Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat (RSC) 8×50mmR Lebel France: 1918 SMG PDW Chropi GP10 submachine gun: Chropi 9×19mm Parabellum.45 ACP Greece: 1975 SMG Choroszmanów submachine gun: Grzegorz Choroszman 7.62×25mm Tokarev Poland: 1943 SMG CMMG MkG: CMMG .45 ACP United States: 2017 SMG Colt 9mm SMG
Sterling/Patchett Machine Carbine Mark 1- British submachine gun first produced in 1944 but only trialled and used in small numbers during the war. BSA Welgun – The Welgun was a prototype submachine gun developed by the British irregular warfare organisation, the Special Operations Executive. Although it performed well in tests, it was never ...
[12] [b] Around four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41. The Sten served as the basis for the Sterling submachine gun, which replaced the Sten in British service from the 1950s.
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 ...