In other good news, it also says "metal" on all websites. Change the inner barrel to a Stainless Ra-Tech AEG 6,02 x 225mm and the HopUp bucking to a Blue 70° Maple Leaf and you'll have an awesome gun. It shot 50m right out the box (without adjustment). Just add a wooden stock and you have something completely different. Most of all because of all the cool things you can build with its simple shape: A pipe and a straight mag. This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V23N1 (January 2019)Īnd was posted online on November 16, 2018Ĭomments have not been generated for this article.In my opinion this is a good value quality gun. Submachine guns produced at Sterling had. The Sterling Mark IV L2A3 submachine gun was produced in Great Britain by Sterling and the Royal Ordnance Factory at Fazakerly. The Sterling company continued further development of the weapon resulting in a final version designated as the Sterling Mk IV L2A3. The official designation was the Sterling Submachine Gun Mk III, L2A2. The Patchett name was dropped and replaced with the name Sterling. During 1955, the Mark III model was introduced. Finally, during 1953, the Patchett Mark II was adopted as the Gun, Sub-machine, 9mm L2A1. One of the primary features of the Mark II was its magazine housing oriented at an 82-degree forward angle, to accept Patchett’s new double-feed, curved magazine-a vast improvement over the Sten magazine. Undeterred, development of the Patchett continued with the introduction of the Mk II model in 1946. After testing, the Patchett Mark I was considered suitable for service, but with plenty of Sten Mk II and Mk IV submachine guns still in service, there were no large orders for the Patchett forthcoming. The Mark I’s magazine housing was attached at a 90-degree angle to the receiver and fed from Sten or Lanchester magazines. Designated as the Patchett Mark I machine carbine, the weapon used a number of parts from the Lanchester machine carbine. By 1943, George Patchett’s submachine gun was developed enough to be tested by the military. Patchett designed a fair number of prototype weapons based on his ideas. George Patchett was an experienced gun designer who went to work for the Sterling Armament Company during World War II. After the threat of invasion subsided, work began on developing a more refined submachine gun. The Sten was a rather crude, but reliable and deadly weapon.
The Sten machine carbine (the term “submachine gun” was not used by the British until 1954) was hurriedly conceived during the early stages of World War II, as Great Britain, seriously short of weapons for defense, was facing an invasion by the German Army. Patchetts, Sterlings, PAWS and Stenlings, Oh MyĬlassic Submachine Guns, Carbines and Pistols Refined
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