Editing British WWII Equipment (section)

===Rifles and SMGs===
* '''Lee-Enfield''': The Lee-Enfield was the distant second best rifle of the war, carrying more bullets than the Kar98 but beaten out flat by the M1 Garand and about equal to the SVT. The Enfield was primarily influenced by the aforementioned British Pre-war colonial policy of having a rifle that could work well against dissenting colonials with a good number of shots if needed, after the Boer War taught some painful lessons when one-bullet-at-a-time loaded magazine early Lee-Enfields (and previous design Lee-Metfords which had inferior rifling) got matched up against Mausers. The biggest downside of the World War 2 era No 4 MkI was being unable to mount a sword bayonet as the World War 1 era SMLE MkIII/MkIII* could, which ended up not being that big of a deal because the spike bayonet did the job just fine. Another shorter variant, the No 5 MkI "Jungle Carbine" used a more conventional knife bayonet and got deployed at the tail end of the war. There was one more line upgrade into the No 4 Mk2 (by this time the Mark numbers had switched from Latin to Arabic numerals) which was mostly make work to keep the factory going until the production switched to the FN FAL's British variant, the L1A1. Afterwards, a 7.62 NATO Lee-Enfield sharpshooting variant called the L42A1 served as Britain's standard sniper rifle until the nineties.
* '''P14 Enfield''': Old WW1 rifle that was mainly relegated to sniper use; despite having half the ammo capacity of the Lee-Enfield, it had superior accuracy to make up for it.
* '''Ross Mk.III''': The Canadian's preferred rifle, it was a straight-pull design that theoretically could fire faster, but less smoothly than a turn-bolt. During WWI it infamously held up poorly in trench conditions, but also had superior accuracy as well, making it best suited as a sniper rifle. The problems came about as a result of it being originally designed for target shooting rather than combat. If it wasn't maintained well the bolt had a nasty tendency to shoot out the back in bad cases. Even snipers who appreciated the design and could maintain it better than the grunts needed essentially spotless ammo to stop jamming. Some were brought out in desperation as emergency orders after Dunkirk, but they mostly stayed on the home front in World War 2 and was used by guards, police and firefighters.
* '''DeLisle Commando Carbine''': An adaptation of the Lee-Enfield for Commandos on clandestine missions; it was fitted with an integrally suppressed barrel and fired .45 ACP cartridges from an M1911 magazine. One of the quietest weapons used by the Brits, second only to the Welrod.
* '''Sten''': The Sten was a fucking cheap weapon that many British troops hated with a passion due to being of shoddy reliability without being "broken in". Early war Stens (mostly Mk 2) were built to be as cheap as possible so that enough could be issued for the front lines, but later in the war, the British could afford to make better quality versions like the Mk 5. The Sten was also incredibly silent when suppressed, so much so that the Germans took notice and tried making copies of it for their own clandestine use. The Sten had reliability problems due to the magazine feed, infamously one jammed during Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich's assassination, forcing a grenade toss to indirectly kill Heydrich via an injury and infection.
* '''Lanchester''': used mainly by the Royal Navy, the Lanchester is a direct copy of the German MP28, itself an improvement on the MP18, the world's first SMG. The Lanchester had a bayonet lug, but most likely didn't see much use in bayonet charges.
* '''Sterling''': similar to the Sten but better designed, both in terms of ergonomics and reliability. Essentially a Sten without the problems of having been designed in the desperate months after Dunkirk. It saw action very late in the war and was used for a long time during the cold war. Later used as the base for the Imperial E-11 blaster from [[Star Wars]].
* '''Owen''': Local Boy Saves Straya with Home-Built SMG! Seriously, this gun is bizarre-looking as the magazine sticks out from the top like a Bren Gun; that being said, it was very well balanced and performed well enough that the Australians kept it around for the next several decades.