| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdf:type | |
| rdfs:label | |
| rdfs:comment | - The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun which was in service with the British Army from 1953 until 1988 when it was phased out with the introduction of the L85A1.
- The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun which was in service with the British Army from 1944 until 1994, when it was phased out with the introduction of the L85A1 assault rifle.
- That's how the Sterling remained, since the British army had a large quantity of Stens still in storage, but in 1947 the Sterling design went head-to-head with other designs of submachine gun from Enfield and Birmingham Small Arms Company, among others. The Sterling won, and was put into the army in 1951 as the L2A1 Submachine gun. In 1988, the Sterling was replaced by the L85A1, which is an assault rifle, not a submachine gun.
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| Length | |
| dcterms:subject | |
| foaf:homepage | |
| dbkwik:guns/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| dbkwik:publicsafety/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| dbkwik:vietnam-war/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| dbkwik:vietnamwar/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Number | |
| Range | |
| part length | |
| Origin | |
| Rate | |
| Name | |
| Type | |
| Caption | - Sterling L2A3 submachine gun
|
| Cartridge | |
| Wars | |
| Weight | |
| Image | |
| Used by | |
| is ranged | |
| Action | |
| design date | |
| Topic | |
| Variants | |
| feed | |
| abstract | - The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun which was in service with the British Army from 1953 until 1988 when it was phased out with the introduction of the L85A1.
- That's how the Sterling remained, since the British army had a large quantity of Stens still in storage, but in 1947 the Sterling design went head-to-head with other designs of submachine gun from Enfield and Birmingham Small Arms Company, among others. The Sterling won, and was put into the army in 1951 as the L2A1 Submachine gun. The Sterling is similar in appearance to the Sten. It had a stock that folded beneath the gun and looked like a tube with a trigger, grip and magazine, much like the Sten. Also like the Sten, the magazine came out of the side, although this magazine was curved instead of straight. However, the Sterling used a double stack double feed method, not the flawed double stack, single feed of the Sten. Despite it's similar appearance, the Sterling was a great improvement over the Sten. In 1988, the Sterling was replaced by the L85A1, which is an assault rifle, not a submachine gun.
- The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun which was in service with the British Army from 1944 until 1994, when it was phased out with the introduction of the L85A1 assault rifle.
|
