Sten

3.7–4.6 million (all variants, depending on source)

Mk. I, II, IIS, III, IV, V, VI

3.2 kg (7.1 lb) (Mk. II)

762 mm (30.0 in)

196 mm (7.7 in)

9×19mm Parabellum

Blowback-operated , open bolt

version dependent; c. 500–600 round/min

365 m/s (1,198 ft/s) 305 m/s (1,001 ft/s) (suppressed models)

60 m (66 yd)

32-round detachable box magazine

fixed peep rear, post front

Albania : Used by the Albanian National Liberation Army during World War II. The weapons were supplied by the British SOE.

Argentina : Modelo C.4. .

Australia : Locally produced during World War II.

Bangladesh : Extensively used during 1971 war .

Botswana

Belgium

British Hong Kong

Canada : Locally produced during World War II.

Central African Republic : Central African Republic Police had 10 Stens in 1963

Ceylon

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) Katanga

Katanga

Cuba : Fidel Castro praised the Canadian Sten gun in his 1958 interview with Erik Durschmied

Cyprus

People's Republic of China : Most used by communist forces had their Stens converted to 7.62x25 calibre.

Republic of China : Locally produced copies designated M38

Czechoslovakia : Used by Czechoslovak troops for Operation Anthropoid , the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich . The gun jammed and failed to fire.

Denmark : Used by the Danish resistance movements like BOPA and Holger Danske . Locally produced.

Egypt

Finland : 76 115 MK 2s and 3s bought in 1957–1958; used until replaced by assault rifles.

France : Used during World War II by the Free French forces, the French Resistance and some captured from the Resistance were used by the pro-German Milice française . Still used after World War II.

Greece

Grenada

India

Indonesia : Used by republican Forces.

Israel : Used in the 1947–1949 Palestine war and the Suez Crisis .

Italy : Sten guns were supplied to the Italian resistance movement by the SOE, along with the United Defense M42 submachine gun supplied by the OSS during the Italian Campaign. These guns, along with the Berretta M38A, were used by the Italian partisans until the end of World War II.

Empire of Japan

Jordan : Arab Legion

Kenya : Used by the regular police paramilitary GSU, army paratroopers; replaced by G3A3/4, M4 and HK416.

Kingdom of Laos : Used by the Royal Lao Army and the CIA -sponsored irregular Special Guerrilla Groups during the Laotian Civil War .

Libya

Luxembourg

Malaysia : Used by Royal Malaysia Police , Malaysian Army , Royal Malaysian Navy and Malaysian Prison Department in 1950s to 1970s.

Malta

Myanmar : Retired.

Nepal : Still in service in 2006.

Netherlands

Nazi Germany : Used some captured Stens during World War II, under the designations MP 748 (e) for the Mark I to MP 751 (e) for the Mark V. From late 1944, they produced an almost identical copy of the Mk II, the Gerät Potsdam (Potsdam Device) and a modified version, the MP 3008 , as last ditch weapons.

New Zealand

Nigeria

North Korea : Canadian Mk II and Chinese M38 copies.

Norway : Used by the Norwegian resistance from 1940–1945. The guns came to the resistance groups by air (supply drops). Used by the Army after the war.

North Vietnam : Việt Minh and Viet Cong

Pakistan

Philippines : Used by the Recognized Guerrilla Units during World War II.

Poland : Used by Polish Armed Forces in the West and main resistance army in occupied Poland, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army). The majority of the resistance's Stens were dropped to Poland in SOE supply drops, but some of the Polish Stens were produced in the occupied country. Polish engineers also designed their own Sten version, the Błyskawica submachine gun . After the war, it was used by many anti-communist partisan groups ( cursed soldiers ).

Portugal : Known as m/43 .

Rhodesia

Sierra Leone

South Africa South West Africa : Used by SWAPOL during the South African Border War .

South West Africa : Used by SWAPOL during the South African Border War .

South Vietnam

Thailand

Tibet : The Tibetan Army purchased 168 guns in 1950.

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States : Suppressed Stens used during the Vietnam War by American special forces.

West Germany : Formerly used by West Berlin Police.

Yugoslavia : Used by the Yugoslav Partisans and Chetniks . Also used after the war.