The Owen gun, known officially as the Owen machine carbine, was an Australian submachine gun that was designed by Evelyn Owen in 1938. The Owen was the only entirely Australian-designed and constructed service submachine gun of World War II .

It was the Owen submachine gun (SMG) or Owen machine carbine, and the Australian infantry often favorably referred to it as the “Digger’s Darling.” According to historian Michael Haskew, the “blowback-operated Owen was the only weapon of its type developed in …

2023年2月28日 · During the Second World War, the Australian Army introduced the Owen gun, known officially as the Owen machine carbine, into service, and it was so beloved by those in the field that it was equipped until the end of the Vietnam War. The Owen gun was developed by a relatively young designer by the name of Evelyn Owen.

2013年3月25日 · The Owen gun story begins with a young 23-year-old Evelyn Owen and his incessant tinkering with guns. In 1938 he perfected (well, sort of) a homemade full auto carbine firing .22LR from a drum-type magazine. It used a thumb trigger instead of the normal type, and was thoroughly unfit for military use.

2019年4月20日 · In 1942, the John Lysaght metalworks factory made three versions of the Owen gun in nine-millimeter Luger, .38–200 caliber and .45 ACP. The factory subjected each version to stress tests, along...

In WWII, Australian soldiers found themselves fighting a different kind of war against the Japanese in the Jungles of New Guinea. The main weapon of the Australian Infanteer was the .303 Mk III* with each section commander carrying a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun.

In July 1939, a few months before war broke out in Europe, 24 year old Evelyn Owen presented, at Victoria Barracks in Sydney, his design for a .22 caliber submachine gun that could be manufactured out of parts from a .22 caliber rifle.

The Owen was the only Australian-designed service firearm of World War II and was the main submachine gun used by the Australian Army during the war. Owen, an inventor from Wollongong, was 24 in July 1939 when he demonstrated his prototype .22 calibre "Machine Carbine" to Australian Army ordnance officers at Victoria Barracks in Sydney.

The Owen submachine gun was designed by Evelyn Owen specifically for the needs of the Australian army during World War II. It was tested in wet and sandy conditions, the sorts of conditions likely to be found in Australia's north and in Asia and Africa where it proved to be superior to other machine guns.

The Australian-designed and manufactured 9mm Owen submachine gun contributed significantly to fewer casualties and to the defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific War from 1942 to 1945. The functionality of the Owen allowed it to serve the Australian Army until the mid-1960s.