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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.
16 Ιουν 2021 · From the start, the Sten gun proved a favorite of resistance fighters throughout Europe. The Allies dropped tens of thousands of them via parachute throughout Nazi-occupied regions as well as to the Chinese attempting to fight off Japan.
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.
7 Οκτ 2024 · Sten gun, 9-millimetre submachine gun that became the standard such weapon in the British Commonwealth armed forces during World War II. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Sten guns were provided to underground movements everywhere in Europe during that war.
Sten Submachine Gun. Contributor: Alan Chanter. In January 1941 the design department of the Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield, Middlesex, produced the prototype of what was to become the best-known SMG of World War II.
9 Δεκ 2013 · First dreamed up in the opening months of the war and rushed into production during the Battle of Britain, the Sten was a bargain-basement sub-machine gun that could be produced quickly and in great numbers.
In 1943 German troops captured a parachuted shipment of STENs meant for the Norwegian resistance - the managed to assemble the submachine guns within 10 minutes and were shocked to find that their rate of fire was much higher than their MP40 s and more accurate too.
