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Using the same magazines as the [[MP40]], the Sten is subject to similar errors; the common habit in fiction of using the magazine as a sidegrip would in real life result in damage to the feed lips of the magazine, and fully loading the magazine in spring failures; like the MP40, soldiers experienced in using the Sten would typically load magazines with 30 or 28 rounds rather than 32. | Using the same magazines as the [[MP40]], the Sten is subject to similar errors; the common habit in fiction of using the magazine as a sidegrip would in real life result in damage to the feed lips of the magazine, and the videogame habit of fully loading the magazine in spring failures; like the MP40, soldiers experienced in using the Sten would typically load magazines with 30 or 28 rounds rather than 32. | ||
==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
Revision as of 22:59, 27 October 2011
Using the same magazines as the MP40, the Sten is subject to similar errors; the common habit in fiction of using the magazine as a sidegrip would in real life result in damage to the feed lips of the magazine, and the videogame habit of fully loading the magazine in spring failures; like the MP40, soldiers experienced in using the Sten would typically load magazines with 30 or 28 rounds rather than 32.
Specifications
- Weight: 3.2 kg (7.1 lb) (Mk. II)
- Length: 760 mm (29.9 in)
- Barrel length: 196 mm (7.7 in)
- Cartridge: 9x19mm Parabellum
- Action: Blowback-operated, Open bolt
- Rate of fire: Version dependent; ~500 round/min
- Muzzle velocity: 365 m/s (1,198 ft/s)
- Effective range: 300 m
- Feed system: 32-rd detachable box magazine
- Sights: fixed peep rear, post front
The Sten submachine gun has appeared in the following films and video games used by the following actors:
Film
- Gregory Peck as Manuel Artiguez in Behold A Pale Horse (1964)
- Where Eagles Dare (1968)
- The Guns of Navarone (1962)
- Chris Pine as Darwin Tremor in Smokin' Aces (2006)
- Perry King as Kip Moore in Search and Destroy
- Paper Tiger (1975)
- 633 Squadron (1964)
- Escape to Athena (1979)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Return from the River Kwai (1988)
- Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Sgt. Pierre Augagneur in Les Morfalous
- Richard Todd as Major John Howard in The Longest Day (1963)
- Resistance fighters in Equilibrium
- William Holden as Shears and Jack Hawkins as Major Warden in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Polish Resistance in The Pianist
- Michael Caine as Col. Steiner and various characters in The Eagle Has Landed
- John Cassavetes as Hank McCain in Machine Gun McCain
- Black Book (2006)
Television
- Guns (2008)
- Erin Lacourciere as Jeanette Anaise and Vincent Gale as Nigel Griffin in the Sanctuary episode "Normandy" (2011)
Video Games
- Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (fitted with suppressor)
- Medal of Honor: Underground (MKII)
- British Army soldiers in Medal of Honor: Frontline (non-playable)
- Call of Duty: United Offensive (fitted with suppressor)
- Silent Storm (Mk. II, Mk. III with suppressor, Mk. IV & Mk. V)
- Hour of Victory (fitted with suppressor)
- Conflict: Vietnam (fitted with suppressor)
- Vietcong (Mk. IIS fitted with suppressor)
- Vietcong 2 (Mk. IIS fitted with suppressor)
- Hidden & Dangerous 2 (Mk. II and Mk. IIS fitted with suppressor)
- Metro 2033 ( the "Bastard gun" resembles a sten )
Anime
- Strike Witches (Mk. II)
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Mk. II)