World Guns

STERLING Country Of Origin: UK Length Stock Extended: 710 mm Designation: Sub-Machine Gun Length Stock Retracted: 480 mm Cartridge: 9 mm Parabellum Barrel: 198 mm Production Date: 1953-1988 Weight Empty: 2.70 kg     Rifling: 6 grooves, rh Rate Of Fire: 550 rds/min Mag Capacity: 34 rounds Sterling L34A1 or Sterling Mk.5 silenced version, with magazine removed Sterling Mk.7 "Para" shortened version, with shorter magazine This submachine gun had been developed in the 1940s by the Patchett at the Sterling Armament Co., Great Britain, and had been adopted by british Army in 1953. It remained in army service well untill early 1990s, when it was replaced by L85A1 assault rifle. Sterling is a relatively simple, but wery well made, blowback operated gun. The receiver and the barrel heat shield was made from steel tube, the bolt was machined, with fixed firing pin and four special ribs, designed to gather and remove the dust and fouling from the receiver. The curved magazine is inserted from the left side, spent cases are ejected to the right. The folding butt is made from stamped steel. Silenced version of the Sterling, oficially labelled as L34A1, replaced in service the older STEN Mark 6 silenced. The Sterling SMG deserved wery high reputation along the troops due to extreme reliability and good accuracy.