"The Sterling S11 Was a Submachine Gun With a Bayonet" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Jan 2017 9:44 p.m. PST |
"In 1965, the Sterling Armaments Company developed a new version of its successful submachine gun. The S11 represents the company's effort to modernize the reliable Sterling submachine gun and compete with the new Heckler & Koch MP5 While George Patchett, the Sterling's original designer, was still working with the company in 1965, Frank Water and David Howroyd — Sterling's chief designer and works director, respectively — oversaw the S11's design. The designers took cues from the Israeli Uzi, a contemporary of Sterling's original weapon. Unlike the original Sterling submachine gun, which the British Army adopted in 1953 as the L2A1, the S11 has a stamped box receiver rather than a tubular receiver…"
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| Rubber Suit Theatre | 17 Jan 2017 12:42 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 17 Jan 2017 12:31 p.m. PST |
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| goragrad | 17 Jan 2017 11:59 p.m. PST |
As to that Rommel quote, there are quite a few graves with occupants who could have used a bayonet after they fired that last round… |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 18 Jan 2017 6:47 p.m. PST |
Rommel spoke from experience – a French soldier shot him in the leg after he'd made the ill-advised decision to charge said Frenchman with a bayonet. |
| capncarp | 18 Jan 2017 7:19 p.m. PST |
They don't like it up'em! |
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.