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Sten
The Sten (technically an acronym for Reginald Shephard, Harold Turpin and Enfield but usually written as if it were a proper noun in the same manner as Bren) is a British designed submachine gun manufactured in a number of variants (know as Marks or simply Mks) during the Second World War. The official designation was "Carbine, Machine, Sten" which is due to the British term for what we would now call submachine guns being "Machine Carbine" at the start of the war (submachine gun was at the time regarded as an American term, as it had originated with the Thompson Submachine Gun). It was notable for its very simple design and consequently low production costs which made it an ideal weapon for supplying resistance groups: the relatively uncomplicated construction meant it could also be manufactured in occupied territories without specialised machine tools. In total approximately 4.5 million Stens were produced, over 2 million of which were the Mark II, which is the iconic Sten gun.
The suppressed version of the Mk II, the Mk II (S), hugely impressed SS officer Otto Skorzeny, who went to great lengths to acquire one. By his own account, the weapon was so quiet that he demonstrated it by leading a group of officers through an empty park at night, and having one of his men approach from behind and unload an entire magazine into the air, with the officers not believing a weapon had been fired until they were shown the shell casings on the ground. His substantial efforts to get the Nazi high command to start mass-producing the Sten proved fruitless, however.
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 (the correct part of the gun to grip is either the barrel shroud, the magwell, or the sloped section below the gun ahead of the trigger guard), and the videogame habit of fully loading the magazine would result in spring failures; like the MP40, soldiers experienced in using the Sten would typically load magazines with 30 or 28 rounds rather than 32. The 50 round Lanchester Mk. I magazine is compatible with the Sten.
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
- 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-round detachable box magazine (usually only loaded with 30 or 28 due to spring issues)
- Sights: fixed peep rear, post front
The Sten submachine gun has appeared in the following films and video games used by the following actors:
Sten Mk I*
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paratrooper | Leo Genn | Maj. John Snow | 1953 | |
| British paratroopers | ||||
| Dr. No | Henchmen | w/ T-strutt stock | 1962 | |
| 633 Squadron | Norwegian Resistance fighters | 1964 | ||
| Alphaville | 1965 | |||
| The War Game | British police | 1965 | ||
| The Heroes of Telemark | Richard Harris | Knut Straud | 1965 | |
| Kirk Douglas | Dr. Rolf Pederson | |||
| Dark of the Sun | A Simba | 1968 | ||
| Max Manus: Man of War | Aksel Hennie | Max Manus | 2008 | |
| Christian Rubeck | Kolbein Lauring |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who | Kaled Scientific Elite | "Genesis of the Daleks", w/ strutt stock | 1963 – 1989 | |
| Ian Marter | Harry Sullivan | |||
| Dennis Chinnery | Gharman | |||
| Tom Georgeson | Kavell | |||
| Madiba | SAP officers | 2017 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akira | Resistance fighter | 1987 |
Sten Mk II
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) | French Resistance fighters | 1946 | ||
| Little Partisan (Malý partyzán) | Josef Šlosar | Jenda Hanuš | 1950 | |
| Czechoslovak soldiers and partisans | ||||
| Attention! Bandits! (Achtung! Banditi!) | Giuliano Montaldo | Lorenzo | 1951 | |
| Franco Bologna | "Cat" | |||
| Italian partisans, fascist policemen | ||||
| Paratrooper | Alan Ladd | Steve MacKendrick | 1953 | |
| Leo Genn | Major John Snow | |||
| Harry Andrews | Regimental Sergeant Major | |||
| British paratroopers | ||||
| The Most Wanted Man (L'Ennemi public No 1) | Fallone's henchmen and plainclothes police | 1953 | ||
| Grisbi (Touchez pas au grisbi) | Jean Gabin | Max | 1954 | |
| Grisbi (Touchez pas au grisbi) | Paul Frankeur | Pierrot | 1954 | |
| Grisbi (Touchez pas au grisbi) | Michel Jourdan | Marco | 1954 | |
| Grisbi (Touchez pas au grisbi) | René Dary | Riton | 1954 | |
| X the Unknown | British soldiers | 1956 | ||
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Jack Hawkins | Major Warden | Canadian model | 1957 |
| William Holden | Commander Shears | |||
| Geoffrey Horne | Lt. Joyce | |||
| Kanal | Polish insurgents | 1957 | ||
| Ashes and Diamonds | Adam Pawlikowski | Andrzej | 1958 | |
| The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) | Zdenek Kryzánek | Ketham | 1958 | |
| French foreign legionaries, VPN soldiers | ||||
| Carve Her Name With Pride | Virginia McKenna | Violette Szabo | Fitted with Mk V front sight | 1958 |
| Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela) | Seen among saboteurs' guns; T-shaped buttstock | 1958 | ||
| Sinners of Paris (Rafles sur la ville) | Charles Vanel | Le Fondu | 1958 | |
| The Square Peg | A British soldier | 1959 | ||
| Never So Few | Frank Sinatra | Capt. Tom Reynolds | 1959 | |
| Richard Johnson | Capt. Danny De Mortimer | |||
| Philip Ahn | Nautaung | |||
| Burmese soldiers | ||||
| Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes) | The bank security guards | Canadian model | 1959 | |
| Yesterday's Enemy | Japanese soldiers | 1959 | ||
| Consider All Risks (Classe tous risques) | Philippe March | Jean Martin | 1960 | |
| Lino Ventura | Abel Davos | |||
| Breathless | Police officer | 1960 | ||
| The Guns of Navarone | Anthony Quinn | Andrea Stavros | Prop weapon using natural gas to create muzzle flash. Appears to be built on a Mk II with the barrel sawn off nearly to the shroud. | 1961 |
| James Darren | Spyros Pappadimos | |||
| Bob Simmons | German Officer | |||
| Konga | British soldiers | 1961 | ||
| Taxi for Tobruk (Un taxi pour Tobrouk) | Lino Ventura | Theo Dumas | 1961 | |
| Charles Aznavour | Samuel Goldmann | |||
| Germán Cobos | Jean Ramirez | |||
| A Man Named Rocca (Un nommé La Rocca) | Guards | 1961 | ||
| Gorgo | British soldiers | 1961 | ||
| The Longest Day | Richard Todd | British Airborne Major John Howard | 1962 | |
| Maigret Sees Red (Maigret voit rouge) | French police | 1963 | ||
| Behold a Pale Horse | Gregory Peck | Manuel Artiguez | 1964 | |
| The Unvanquished (L'Insoumis) | French soldier | Canadian model | 1964 | |
| Code Name: Tiger (Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche) | Benitez´s henchman | 1964 | ||
| Fantômas | Louis de Funès | Fantômas | 1964 | |
| Henri Attal | The bodyguard of Fantômas | |||
| French Gendarmers | ||||
| Panic in Bangkok (Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117) | Kerwin Mathews | Hubert Bonisseur alias OSS 117 | 1964 | |
| Hitman, laboratories guard | ||||
| The Assassination (Atentát) | Radoslav Brzobohatý | 1st Lt. Král | Canadian model | 1964 |
| Rudolf Jelínek | Sgt. Strnad | |||
| Ladislav Mrkvicka | Sgt. Vyskocil | |||
| Jirí Kodet | Sgt. Tousek | |||
| The Gendarme of St. Tropez | Louis de Funès | Ludovic Cruchot | 1964 | |
| The Sinister Monk | Hanging on the wall; Canadian model | 1965 | ||
| 008: Operation Exterminate | Alberto Lupo | Frank Smith, agent 606 | Continuity mistake | 1965 |
| Thugs | ||||
| Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) | Chinese triads | 1965 | ||
| Battle of the Bulge | American soldier | 1965 | ||
| OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117) | Nazis, Indians | 1965 | ||
| Fantômas se déchaîne | Jean Marais | Fandor | 1965 | |
| Ivory Coast Adventure | Jean Marais | Jean-Luc Hervé | 1965 | |
| Robert Dalban | Pepe | |||
| Various criminals | ||||
| The Majordomo (Le majordome) | Fitted to a mannequin; with wooden buttstock | 1965 | ||
| Fantômas se déchaîne | Jean Marais | Fandor | 1965 | |
| Check Passed: No Mines (Provereno nema mina) | Yugoslavian soldiers | British and Canadian models | 1965 | |
| Harum Scarum | Assassins | 1965 | ||
| Cast a Giant Shadow | Senta Berger | Magda | 1966 | |
| Yul Brynner | Asher | |||
| Stathis Giallelis | Ram Oren | |||
| Frank Sinatra | Vince | |||
| The Upper Hands ((Du rififi à Paname)) | The assassin in car | 1966 | ||
| Judith | Peter Finch | Aaron Stein | 1966 | |
| Shraga Friedman | Nathan | |||
| British paratroopers, Haganah members | ||||
| Funeral in Berlin | Fitted with Mk V front sight | 1966 | ||
| Is Paris Burning? | French Resistance fighters | 1966 | ||
| The Last Adventure | The Henchman | Canadian model | 1967 | |
| How I Won the War | Michael Crawford | Lt. Earnest Goodbody | 1967 | |
| The Cobra | Henchmen | 1967 | ||
| You Only Live Twice | Spectre Guards | w/ Mk V front sight | 1967 | |
| Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) | Jean-Claude Brialy | Jean | Canadian model | 1967 |
| Claude Brasseur | Groubec | |||
| Paolo Fratini | Philippe | |||
| Patrick Préjean | Lecocq | |||
| Resistance fighters | ||||
| I, Justice (Já, spravedlnost) | Men disguised as U.S. soldiers | 1968 | ||
| The Violent Four (Banditi a Milano) | Gian Maria Volonté | Pietro 'Piero' Cavallero | Canadian model | 1968 |
| Pasha (Le Pacha) | Dancers in cabaret | 1968 | ||
| Play Dirty | British soldiers | Canadian model | 1969 | |
| Mr. Freedom | Freedom agent | 1969 | ||
| Machine Gun McCain | John Cassavetes | Hank McCain | 1969 | |
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Resistance fighters | 1969 | ||
| How I Unleashed World War II | Lech Ordon | Sgt. Hopkins | 1970 | |
| English soldiers and Polish partisans | ||||
| The Cop (Un condé) | French police | 1970 | ||
| Confessions of a Police Captain | Thug | Canadian model | 1971 | |
| The Pariah (La Scoumoune) | Burglar | 1972 | ||
| Resistance fighters | ||||
| Gang War in Naples | Pietravalle's henchman | 1972 | ||
| State of Siege (État de Siège) | Police and guerrillas | 1972 | ||
| Man in the Trunk (La Valise) | Michel Constantin | Capt. Augier | Canadian model | 1973 |
| No Way Out | Mafia hitmen | 1973 | ||
| The Dominici Affair (L'Affaire Dominici) | In Maillet's house | 1973 | ||
| We Want the Colonels (Vogliamo i colonnelli) | Paratroopers | 1973 | ||
| Sokolovo | Jozef Gabčík | 1974 | ||
| The Terrorists | Commandos | 1974 | ||
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer (Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind) | Thug | Canadian Model | 1974 | |
| Almost Human | Tomás Milián | Giulio Sacchi | Canadian model | 1974 |
| Gino Santercole | Vittorio | |||
| Ray Lovelock | Carmine | |||
| The Nada Gang | Fabio Testi | Buenaventura Diaz | Canadian model | 1974 |
| Mariangela Melato | Veronique Cash | |||
| Street Law | Massimo Vanni | "Unibrow" | 1974 | |
| The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil) | French Maquis | 1975 | ||
| Cop Story (Flic Story) | Renato Salvatori | Mario le Rital | Canadian model | 1975 |
| Sholay | Amitabh Bachchan | Jai | Canadian model | 1975 |
| Sholay | Gabbar's brigands | Canadian model | 1975 | |
| Paper Tiger | British soldiers | 1975 | ||
| The Phoney (Le Faux-cul) | Hélène Duc | Maxime's mother | Canadian model | 1975 |
| Deathcheaters | Henchmen | 1976 | ||
| Sky Riders | Terrorists | 1976 | ||
| The Big Racket | Rudy's henchmen | Standard and Canadian models | 1976 | |
| Violent Naples (Napoli violenta) | Casagrande's henchmen | 1976 | ||
| The Eagle Has Landed | Michael Caine | Oberst Kurt Steiner | Canadian model | 1976 |
| Siegfried Rauch | Sergeant Major Brandt | |||
| Sven-Bertil Taube | Hauptmann Von Neustadt | |||
| German Paratroopers | ||||
| Colt 38 Special Squad (Quelli della calibro 38) | Criminals | 1976 | ||
| A Special Cop in Action (Italia a mano armata) | Stelio Candelli | Forestier | 1976 | |
| Daniele Dublino | Luzzi | With custom pistol grip | ||
| Soldier of Orange | Jeroen Krabbé | Guus LeJeune | Canadian model | 1977 |
| Rutger Hauer | Erik Lanshof | |||
| Resistance fighters | ||||
| Sorcerer | Guerrilla | 1977 | ||
| Operation Thunderbolt | African soldiers | 1977 | ||
| The Gang (Le Gang) | Alain Delon | Robert | 1977 | |
| Roland Bertin | Raymond | |||
| Adalberto Maria Merli | Manu | |||
| Xavier Depraz | Jo | |||
| Weapons of Death (Napoli spara!) | Santoro's henchmen | 1977 | ||
| The Seventh Company Outdoors (La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune) | Michel Berto | A British pilot | 1977 | |
| The Inglorious Bastards | French Resistance fighters | 1978 | ||
| Deadly Chase (Il commissario Verrazzano) | A robber | 1978 | ||
| Escape to Athena | David Niven | Professor Blake | Canadian model | 1979 |
| Telly Savalas | Zeno | |||
| Claudia Cardinale | Eleana | |||
| Paul Stassino | Carlo | |||
| Greek Resistance fighters | ||||
| Hanover Street | Resistance fighters | 1979 | ||
| The Passage | Resistance fighters | 1979 | ||
| The Hijacking of Savoy (Pokhishchenie Savoi) | 1979 | |||
| Pirates of the XXth Century (Piraty XX veka) | Igor Klass | Schweigert | Canadian model | 1979 |
| Tadeush Kasyanov | The boatswain | |||
| Pirates, Indian police | ||||
| From Hell to Victory | George Hamilton | Maurice Bernard | 1979 | |
| George Peppard | Brett Rosson | |||
| British soldiers | ||||
| Cuba | Cuban guerillas | British and Canadian models | 1979 | |
| Gandhi | Gurkha | 1982 | ||
| Bukit Kepong | Police Jungle Squad | Canadian model | 1982 | |
| Communist terrorists | ||||
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | French soldiers | 1983 | ||
| Copper Angel (Medny angel) | Nikolai Yeryomenko, Jr. | Sebastian Valdes | Canadian Model | 1984 |
| Les Morfalous | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Sgt. Pierre Augagneur | Canadian model | 1984 |
| French Legionaires | ||||
| Top Secret! | 1984 | |||
| One Hundred Days in Palermo | Mafia hitman | With pistol grip | 1984 | |
| Water | Chris Tummings | Garfield Cooper | 1985 | |
| Spies Like Us | Mujahideen | 1985 | ||
| Plenty | Maquisard | 1985 | ||
| Maximum Overdrive | Pat Miller | Joe | Canadian model | 1986 |
| Cuckoo in a Dark Forest | British soldiers | 1986 | ||
| The Sicilian | Derrick Branche | Terranova | 1987 | |
| Man on Fire | Seen in Sandri's hideout | 1987 | ||
| Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself | The Boys | 1989 | ||
| Return from the River Kwai | Denholm Elliott | Colonel Grayson | With wooden stock | 1989 |
| Cargo 300 (Gruz 300) | A mujaheddin | 1989 | ||
| Bullet in the Head | Leong's henchman | 1990 | ||
| The Warrior's Heart | 1992 | |||
| Bad Blood | Lorenzo Lamas | Travis Blackstone | Canadian model | 1994 |
| Outbreak | British mercenary | Canadian model | 1995 | |
| Seven Years in Tibet | British soldiers | Canadian model | 1997 | |
| Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Henchmen | 1999 | ||
| Equilibrium | Resistance fighters | 2002 | ||
| The Pianist | Resistance fighters | Canadian model | 2002 | |
| Reign of Fire | Refugees | 2002 | ||
| El Alamein - The Line of Fire | British soldiers | 2002 | ||
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Nautilus Crew | Ornately decorated and chrome plated | 2003 | |
| The Last Drop | Nick Moran | Pvt. Alan Ives | 2005 | |
| The Last Drop | Sean Pertwee | Sgt. Bill McMillian | 2005 | |
| The Last Drop | British Soldiers | 2005 | ||
| Black Book | Resistance fighters | Canadian model | 2006 | |
| Pan's Labyrinth | Spanish Maquis | 2006 | ||
| Assembly (Ji jie hao) | Quan Ren | Political Officer | Canadian model | 2007 |
| Balls of Fury | Henchmen | 2007 | ||
| Blood Brothers | gangster | 2007 | ||
| Chen Chang | Mark | |||
| Smokin' Aces | Chris Pine | Darwin Tremor | Canadian model | 2007 |
| Female agents | Julien Boisselier | Pierre Desfontaines | Canadian model | 2008 |
| Sophie Marceau | Louise Desfontaines | |||
| Vincent Rottiers | Eddy | |||
| French maquisards | ||||
| Flame and Citron | Thure Lindhardt | Bent 'Flame' Faurschou-Hviid | 2008 | |
| Mads Mikkelsen | Jørgen 'Citron' Haagen Schmith | |||
| Danish resistance fighters | ||||
| Miracle at St. Anna | Pierfrancesco Favino | Peppi 'The Great Butterfly' Grotta | 2008 | |
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Brendan Fraser | Rick O'Connell | 2008 | |
| Max Manus: Man of War | Aksel Hennie | Max Manus | w/ and w/o stock | 2008 |
| Nicolai Cleve Broch | Gregers Gram | |||
| Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen | Roy Nilsen | |||
| The Bank Job | Trinidad soldiers | Canadian | 2008 | |
| Red and White (Merah Putih) | Dutch soldier | 2009 | ||
| The Army of Crime | Xavier Hosten | Cristea | 2009 | |
| Elephant White | in weapons cache, rare version with magazine well on bottom instead of left side of receiver | 2010 | ||
| Angel of Evil | Seen among other guns | 2010 | ||
| Captain America: The First Avenger | J. J. Feild | James Montgomery Falsworth | 2011 | |
| Bruno Ricci | Jacques Dernier | |||
| The Flowers of War | Chinese soldiers | modified to resemble Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II | 2011 | |
| Beyond the Border | 2011 | |||
| Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Zhang Menzi | mocked as Bergmann MP18 | 2011 |
| Victor Chen | A Gui | |||
| Japanese soliders | ||||
| The Bullet Vanishes | Boss Ding's mobs | 2012 | ||
| Cockneys vs. Zombies | 2012 | |||
| Gangster Squad | Mickey Cohen thug | 2013 | ||
| The Railway Man | Australian Paratrooper | 2013 | ||
| City 44 | Józef Pawlowski | Stefan Zawadzki | 2014 | |
| Anna Próchniak | Kama | |||
| Maurycy Popiel | "Góral" | |||
| Filip Gurlacz | "Rogal" | |||
| Tomasz Schuchardt | "Kobra" | |||
| Sebastian Fabijanski | "Sagan" | |||
| Polish insurgents | ||||
| We Still Kill the Old Way | James Cosmo | Arthur Bennett | 2014 | |
| Bravo V | Communist terrorists | 2015 | ||
| Battery Number One (Edinichka) | Marcin Stec | Porucik Stefan Romanowski | 2015 | |
| Rafal Zawierucha | Franciszek | |||
| Allied | Brad Pitt | Max Vatan | 2016 | |
| Marion Cotillard | Marianne Beauséjour | |||
| Raphael Desprez | "Degas" | |||
| Anthropoid | Cillian Murphy | Jozef Gabčík | 2016 | |
| Jamie Dornan | Jan Kubiš | |||
| Sam Keeley | Josef Bublík | |||
| All the Money in the World | kidnapper | 2017 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Twilight Zone | Edward Binns | Col. Bob Donlin | "I Shot An Arrow into the Air" (S1E15) | 1959-1964 |
| Rocket ship crewmen | ||||
| Stawka wieksza niz zycie | Aleksander Sewruk | Polish partisan | 5/ "Ostatnia szansa" | 1966-1968 |
| French resistance fighters | 11/ "Haslo" | |||
| Mission: Impossible | Henchman | "The Widow" (S02E01) | 1967 | |
| Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) | British soldiers | Ep.12 | 1984 | |
| The Unit | Guards | "Paradise Lost" | 2006 - 2009 | |
| Sanctuary | Erin Lacourciere | Jeanette Anaise | "Normandy" (S03E17), Canadian model | 2007 - ???? |
| Vincent Gale | Nigel Griffin | |||
| Guns | Gun show customer | 2008 | ||
| Inspector George Gently | John Kavanagh | Doyle | "The Burning Man" (S01E01) | 2008 |
| Caprica | 2010 | |||
| The Promise | Christian Cooke | Len Matthews | 2011 | |
| British paratroopers | ||||
| Irgun fighters | ||||
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 12 | Ted Danson | Russell | "Malice in Wonderland" (S12E18) | 2011 |
| Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie) | Jan Wieczorkowski | Wladek Konarski | 2014 | |
| Antoni Pawlicki | Janek | |||
| Karolina Gorczyca | Wiktoria 'Ruda' Rudnicka | |||
| Jakub Wesolowski | Michal Konarski | |||
| Polish insurgents | ||||
| Foyle's War - Season 9 | British soldiers | "Trespass" (S9E2) | 2015 | |
| Julian Lewis Jones | James Stafford | "Elise" (S9E3) | ||
| Madiba | SAP officers | 2017 | ||
| Hunting the Devil (Okhota na dyavola) | Mariya Lugovaya | Anna Yartseva | British model | 2017 |
| Finnish police, French DST operatives | ||||
| The Orville | Modified. Season 1 Episode 4 "If the Stars Should Appear" | 2019 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack | "Blue Jacket" Special Forces | Canadian model | 1993 |
| Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade | "Sect" members | 1998 | |
| Strike Witches | Brittannian soldiers | 2008 - ???? |
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Underground | 2000 | |||
| Fallout Tactics | "Sten Gun" | 2001 | ||
| Battlefield: 1942 | "Road to Rome" expansion pack | 2002 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | "Sten Mark II" | w/ Mk V front sight | 30 round magazine | 2002 |
| Medal of Honor: Frontline | Unusable | 2002 | ||
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | |||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | 2003 | |||
| Call of Duty | Sten | 2003 | ||
| Call of Duty: United Offensive | 2004 | |||
| Call of Duty 2 | Canadian model | 2005 | ||
| Elite Warriors Vietnam | 2005 | |||
| Call of Duty 3 | 2006 | |||
| Company of Heroes | 2006 | |||
| Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 | 2006 | |||
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "Sten Mk II" | Canadian model | 2007 | |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | World War II flashback mission "Project Nova" | 2010 | ||
| 7554 | Sten | 2011 | ||
| Sniper Elite III | Sten Mk. II | Canadian model | 2014 | |
| Counter-Strike Online | Sten Mk II | Erroneously shown as a closed-bolt weapon | 2014 | |
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 2016 | |||
| Sniper Elite 4 | Sten Mk. II | "Urban Assault Expansion Pack" DLC | 2017 | |
| Call of Duty: WWII | Sten | w/ various attachments | "Winter Siege" update | 2017 |
| Battlefield V | STEN | 2018 |
Sten Mk II(S)
The Sten Mk II(S) was a covert ops variant with an extremely effective integral suppressor developed at the request of the British Special Operations Executive by Major Hugh Reeves, who would go on to design the Welrod Pistol. The suppressor used a ported barrel and the recoil spring was shortened and the bolt lightened to ensure reliable function. The S stands for "special purpose" rather than "silenced" as one might expect. It was developed after the failure of attempts early in the war to produce a suppressed Thompson Submachine Gun, and was issued to Commando units and other special forces groups. It was first used by frontline SOE units in in Europe in 1943, and also saw use in the Far East.
While the suppressor became extremely hot with prolonged firing (hence the cloth grip) and would be effectively ruined by running a single magazine through it in full-auto, it was highly effective if fire was restricted to short bursts. As mentioned at the top of the page, SS officer Otto Skorzeny went to great lengths to acquire one, and is known to have stated "What splendid possibilities the use of these silencers offered. What losses they might save and what dangers they might avert! How wonderful, in case of an unexpected meeting with an enemy detachment, to be able to fire without the reports attracting the attention of other enemy groups!" In German use, captured Mk II(S) Stens received the designation "MP751(e)."
While it was officially declared obsolete by the British Army in 1945, the Mk II(S) and Mk VI(S) continued to be used, turning up during counter-insurgency operations in Malaya and Kenya during the 60s. The Mk II(S) was also used by both the Australian SAS and American MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War, and was not actually removed from British Special Forces inventories until suppressed variants of the Heckler & Koch MP5 were adopted in the 1980s.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Guns of Navarone | Irene Papas | Maria Papadimos | 1961 | |
| Fifty Dead Men Walking | w/ wooden stock, seen in news footage | 2008 |
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein | Canadian model w/ Mk II style heatshield | 2001 | ||
| Battlefield: 1942 | "Secret Weapons of WWII" expansion pack | 2002 | ||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | 2003 | |||
| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | 2003 | |||
| Vietcong | Canvas grip removed | "Vietcong: Fist Alpha" expansion pack | 2003 | |
| Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory | Canadian model w/ Mk II style heatshield | 2003 | ||
| Call of Duty: United Offensive | 2004 | |||
| Vietcong 2 | Found only in second mission | 2005 | ||
| Company of Heroes | Canvas grip removed | 2006 | ||
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "Sten MKII Silenced" | Canadian model, can overheat | 2007 | |
| Operation Thunderstorm | Sten | Canadian model | 2008 | |
| The Saboteur | 2009 | |||
| Enemy Front | STEN MK IIS | 2014 | ||
| Battlefield V | Singleplayer only | 2018 |
Sten Mk III
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| These Are the Damned | Oliver Reed | King | 1962 | |
| Macdonald Carey | Simon Wells | |||
| guards | ||||
| The Longest Day | French paratroopers | continuity error | 1965 | |
| Harum Scarum | Assassins | 1965 | ||
| If.... | Various | 1968 | ||
| Walter Defends Sarajevo (Valter brani Sarajevo) | Hidden in Zis' workshop | 1972 | ||
| Paper Tiger | British soldiers | 1975 | ||
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Indonesian soldiers | 1982 | ||
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | French soldiers | 1983 | ||
| Farewell To The King | Marius Weyers | Sgt. Conklin | w/ Canadian model stocks | 1989 |
| Wayne Pygram | Bren Armstrong | |||
| Gerry Lopez | Gwai | |||
| Headhunters |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Company | Chris O'Donnell | CIA Officer Jack McAuliffe | 2010 |
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death to Spies | Suppressed variant available | 2007 | ||
| Death to Spies: Moment of Truth | 2009 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Dandy | Dandy | 2014 |
Sten Mk V
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paratrooper | British paratroopers | w/ vertical grip removed | 1953 | |
| The Longest Day | French paratroopers | continuity error | 1965 | |
| Sorrel Flower (Fleur d'oseille) | Albert Podavini | Freddy "Philosopher" | 1967 | |
| Where Eagles Dare | Patrick Wymark | Col. Turner | w/ vertical grip removed | 1968 |
| Sky Riders | Ernie Orsatti | Joe | 1976 | |
| A Bridge Too Far | British Paratroopers | 1977 | ||
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Indonesian soldiers | 1982 | ||
| Bukit Kepong | Jins Shamsuddin | Sgt. Jamil Mohd Shah | w/ vertical grip removed | 1982 |
| Yusof Haslam | PC Jaafar Hassan | |||
| Police Jungle Squad officers | ||||
| Communist terrorists | ||||
| Universal Soldier | Terrorists | w/ vertical grip removed | 1992 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Avengers | Roland Curram | Vincent East | 1961 - 1969 | |
| Foyle's War - Season 7 | Rob Heanley | British Army Sergeant | "The Russian House" (S7E1) | 2010 |
| Foyle's War - Season 8 | British soldiers | "The Eternity Ring" (S8E1) | 2013 | |
| Endeavour - Season 2 | A reenactor of British Army of WW2 | "Trove" (S02E01) | 2014 |
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | |||
| The Stalin Subway | "STEN Mk2" | w/ vertical grip removed | 2005 | |
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "Sten Mk V" | 2007 | ||
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 2016 | |||
| Day of Infamy | "STEN MK. V" | 2017 | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Sten | w/ various attachments | Added via update | 2018 |
Sten Mk VI
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 2016 | |||
| Day of Infamy | 2017 |
Austen Mk I/II
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Year Of Living Dangerously | various | various | 1982 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission: Impossible | A henchmen | "Spy" (S01E14) | 1988 |
MP 3008
The MP 3008, also knows as the "Volksmaschinenpistole" (people's machine pistol), was a German submachine gun developed towards the end of WWII. It was essentially a copy of the Sten Mk II, but with a vertical magazine. Due to the poor state of German manufacturing towards the end of the war and the fact that the MP 3008 was manufactured in various smaller factories and machine shops, there was a lot of variation in terms of the materials and design of the weapons furniture. It could be found with a skeleton wire stock, a strut stock, a strut stock with a wood pistol grip, and finally a fully wooden stock.
Anime
| Title | Character | Note / Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Najica Blitz Tactics | Crewwomen | "Mission: 005 - The Fragile Dream with a Crimson Colored Horizon" | 2001 |
See Also
- Royal Small Arms Factory - A list of weapons produced by RSAF Enfield