![]() ![]() The desire was to find a weapon precise and powerful enough that it could kill a man within 50 yards night sights were required and the weapon should be repeating or self loading. ![]() Short of silenced weapons, the options were chloroform, clubs or knives. Silenced weapons were in demand for the agents that were working behind enemy lines in the countries occupied by the Germans. (Inter Service Research Bureau), which was a cover name for the SOE (Special Operations Executive). He developments were initiated by the I.S.R.B. The author went through all the surviving documents on this subject he could find in the British archives and examined dozens of silenced Sten guns in order to write the following article that shows four basic models with variations and prototypes. The silenced Sten was made in a number of variations and the exact details have never been revealed. The Welrod pistol, the DeLisle carbine and the silenced Sten guns are the most widely known and successful results of these developments. During the Second World War a lot of research and development was entered into silenced weapons in the British service. ![]()
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