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Sterling submachine gun
Sterling L2A3 (Mark 4) submachine gun
TypeSubmachine gun
Place of originUnited Kingdom
Service history
In service1944–present
Used bySee Users
Wars
  • World War II (Limited)
  • Malayan Emergency[1]
  • Korean War[2]
  • Mau Mau Uprising[3]
  • Suez Crisis[4]
  • Bizerte crisis[5]
  • Aden Emergency[6]
  • Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation[7]
  • Portuguese Colonial War[citation needed]
  • Vietnam War[8]
  • Laotian Civil War[citation needed]
  • Bangladesh Liberation War[9]
  • Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts[10]
  • Nigerian Civil War[11]
  • Second Malayan Emergency[12]
  • The Troubles[13]
  • Angolan Civil War[citation needed]
  • Iran–Iraq War
  • Falklands War[8]
  • Lebanese Civil War[citation needed]
  • Sri Lankan Civil War[10]
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir[10]
  • Gulf War[14]
  • Nepalese Civil War[15]
  • Iraq War[16]
  • Libyan Civil War[17]
Production history
DesignerGeorge William Patchett
Designed1944
ManufacturerSterling Armaments Company
Produced1953–1988
No. built400,000+
VariantsSee Variants
Specifications
Mass2.7 kilograms (6.0 lb)
Length686 millimetres (27.0 in)
Folded stock: 481 millimetres (18.9 in)
Barrel length196 millimetres (7.7 in)

Cartridge9×19mm Parabellum
ActionStraight blowback
Rate of fire550 rounds/min
Effective firing range200 metres (220 yd)
Suppressed: 50–100 metres (55–109 yd)
Feed system34-round box magazine or 32- or 50-round box magazine from the Sten and Lanchester
SightsIron sights

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.

  1. ^ Moss 2018, pp. 41–44.
  2. ^ Moss 2018, pp. 38–41.
  3. ^ "Contre les Mau Mau". Encyclopédie des armes: Les forces armées du monde (in French). Vol. XII. Atlas. 1986. pp. 2764–2766.
  4. ^ Moss 2018, p. 46.
  5. ^ Perez, Jean-Claude (March 1992). "Les armes de l'O.A.S." Gazette des Armes (in French). No. 220. pp. 28–30. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  6. ^ Moss 2018, pp. 49–51.
  7. ^ Moss 2018, p. 47.
  8. ^ a b Suciu, Peter. "Best Guns of the Vietnam War—Beyond the AK-47 and M16". National Interest. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Arms for freedom". The Daily Star. 29 December 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  10. ^ a b c Moss 2018, p. 73.
  11. ^ Jowett, Philip (2016). Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967–70. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 19 & 43. ISBN 978-1-47281-609-2.
  12. ^ Moss 2018, p. 65.
  13. ^ Moss 2018, pp. 51–52.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference gulf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Alpeyrie, Jonathan. "English: Three Maoist rebels are waiting on top of a hill in the Rolpa district to get orders to relocate to another location".
  16. ^ Small Arms Survey (2012). "Surveying the Battlefield: Illicit Arms In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia". Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets. Cambridge University Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-521-19714-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference SAS 26 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ Moss 2018, p. 77.

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