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Specifications for the
STEN SMG
Submachine Gun / Machine Carbine
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Manufacturer:
Enfield Lock (Among Others - See Text) - UK / Canada
Initial Year of Service:
1941
Overall Length:
760mm (29.92in)
Barrel Length:
196.00mm (7.72in)
Weight (Empty):
7.05lbs (3.20kg)
Caliber:
9x19mm Parabellum
Action:
Blowback; Open Bolt
Feed:
32-round detachable box magazine
Muzzle Velocity:
1,200ft/sec (366m/sec)
Rate-of-Fire:
500 rounds per minute
Range:
328ft (100m; 109yds)
Sights:
Fixed Rear Peep; Front Post
Variants:
Mk I - Initial Production Model; barrel jacket; skeletal wire butt; fold-down tube
foregrip; removable barrel assembly; wooden forend; spoon-shaped flashhider/
muzzle compensator; approximately 100,000 produced.
Mk I* - Simplified/lightened Mk I; sans wooden foregrip, wooden forend and muzzle
attachment.
Mk II - Repositioned safety; perforated heat shield replacing barrel jacket; swiveldown
magazine feature; over 2 million produced.
Mk IIS - Silenced Mk II with silencer assembly housing shorter barrel; lightened firing
pin and return spring for quieter operation.
Mk III - Lightened and simplified Mk I; appearing in 1943; sans removable barrel
feature; lacking positional magazine; single-piece sheet-steel body; added figer
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guard near ejection port.
Mk IV - Proposed compact airborne infantry variant; dimensionally smaller; shorter
barrel; collapsing buttstock; Mk IVA and Mk IVB variants intended differing in trigger
design; appearing in 1943.
Mk V - Appearing in 1944; refined design reverting back to wooden pistol grip and
shoulder stock; wooden forward hand grip (later dropped); support for bayonet; No. 4
rifle-style sights; heavier overall weight.
Mk VI - Silenced Mk V models with silencer assembly of Mk II and internals of Mk V.
MP.750(e) - German Army designation of captured STEN Mk III models.
Operators:
Australia; Bangladesh; Belgium; Canada; Ceylon; Cyprus; China; Finland; France;
Greece; India; Indonesia; Israel; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Kenya; Luxembourg; Malaysia;
Malta; Netherlands; Nazi Germany; New Zealand; Nigeria; Norway;
Pakistan;
Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Rhodesia; South Africa; Turkey; United Kingdom;
United States; North Vietnam; South Vietnam; Vietnam; Yugoslavia
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