Why This 'Copied' British Gun Served 25 Years Longer Than The Original скачать в хорошем качестве

Why This 'Copied' British Gun Served 25 Years Longer Than The Original

It was an exact copy of a German submachine gun. British armourers called it "shameless plagiarism." The War Office dismissed it as unoriginal. Yet this copied weapon served the Royal Navy for 25 years while the German original was obsolete by 1943. The Lanchester cost six times what a Sten cost to produce. It weighed 9.5 pounds when lighter guns were available. It used German ammunition, German mechanics, and German operating principles. And it became the most reliable submachine gun of World War II precisely because Britain abandoned pride and copied what worked. This is the story of how one engineer examined a captured German weapon and made the most pragmatic decision of the war, creating a gun so over-built that it survived salt water immersion and fired flawlessly after 25 years at sea, so reliable that it never jammed even when Stens failed constantly, and so trusted that the Royal Navy refused to replace it until the 1960s. From Portsmouth Harbor to Korean waters, discover why this "copied" German design became more British than any weapon Britain invented.