The STEN (or Sten gun) was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They were notable for having a simple design and very low production cost making them effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups.STEN is an acronym from the names of the weapon’s chief designers Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold Turpin and EN for Enfield.Over 4 million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s.
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length (km)
0.76
weight (kg)
3200.0
origin
United Kingdom
type
Submachine gun
used in war
British Empire, Korean War, Sino-Indian War, The Troubles, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chinese Civil War, Suez Crisis, Vietnam War, World War II, Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Rhodesian Bush War, Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Indonesian National Revolution, Second Sino-Japanese War, Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army), Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts, Warsaw Uprising
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