British weapons used by German army. DAK

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I am surprised as I am sure it was in the same category as the T34 tank. When the German military asked industry if they could copy the T34 the answer was "no: it will not pass our quality control systems".

See! The Germans could not resists re-engineering it and making it better. And it turns out the Sten was a copy of a German design to begin with, of course. . .

From hza-kulmbach.de:

On the first view, the construction of the "MP 3008" - also called "Neumuenster device" - is very similar to the british Sten submachine-gun. However there are small but important differences in design. The Brits earlier had copied the german constructions "MP 18/I" and "MP 28/II", then however those were modified. The Mauser-engineers took the simple concept and even improved it, adapting it to the changed manufacturing-environmemt found in the "German Reich" anno 1944. The simple frame, receiver, the easy and pragmatic trigger-group & -housing as well as the functional skeleton foldable stock made of cheap stamped profiles, resulted in higher stiffness and lower weight and being even less-costly to manufacture than the british original, showed the genius in german end-war-engineering.