The Bofors L/60 Mark 2 has a barrel diameter of 40 mm and has a barrel length of 2.25 m.
Post War has seen locally made Sten copies turning up in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Malaya and Vietnam. was the favourite because it could be easily disassembled into 3 parts that could be concealed behind a loose brick, basket on the front of a bicycle or wherever. 2 (S) with lightened breechblock, reduced length main spring and drilled barrel so as to bleed gases out behind the bullet bringing the gas speed down to subsonic, the Mk.2(S) remains to this day,(2006) as a gun others have tried to make as quiet but have failed miserably, with the notable exception of the Mk5 Patchett/Sterling.įor the underground, the Mk.2. The Sten was also manufactured as a silenced gun, the Mark. The gun was also made in Canada, New Zealand, a modified version in Australia and in the underground workshops throughout occupied Europe. These are production figures for BRITAIN ONLY. 3, (876,886) made by Lines bros the makers of Meccano The Sten brought the fight back into Europe and it became a firm favourite with the underground resistance forces who received thousands, container dropped to them by the R.A.F. Even the Germans realised the same, they made an exact copy for their special forces and a simplified version for their Volkssturm, (their Home Guard). Although people speak ill of the gun many comparisons were trialled using foreign and home produced designs, and in almost every case, the Sten came out the winner. The Sten eventually produced in 4 marks or types. The Mark 1 gun was approved for issue on March 7th 1941. Shepherd “S”, Harold John Turpin “T” who was the senior draughtsman at Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield “EN”.
The Sten was developed to use a minimal amount of material, capable of being mass produced by unskilled workers and to fire under all conditions. 45” calibre and of the 3,000 sent by THE Americans, less than 1,500 arrived because of vessels carrying them sunk by ‘U boats’. We bought Thompson guns from America as a stop gap. It soon became clear that we needed a small, pistol calibre automatic carbine to counter the rapid firing German MP38 and MP40. Britain entered the Second World War without any form of machine carbine (sub machine gun is an American title). LAW 66, M72, L1A1 Light Anti-Tank Weapon.