war, they launched a good lee enfield rifle into production, through the efforts of the american hiram maxim, they mastered the maxim machine gun known to us and successfully bought the machine gun of another american, lewis, familiar to us from the white sun of the desert. he did not get along well with the army authorities, but the invention was appreciated in britain. after the end of the war, the industry began to decline, and for the next... world war, britain was ill-prepared. her own the submachine gun, mainly due to its appearance, received a playful nickname: plumber's joy. however, the biggest decline, oddly enough, began during the cold war. nato standardization created fierce competition between western manufacturers. what was required was not diversity , but a single standard, and the british were not very good at competing, because even their own elite... units did not use english weapons, here is the famous photograph of thatcher with sas fighters who are armed with german submachine guns. it is not surprising that the iron lady decided to privatize the factories in prestigiou