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CETME is an acronym for Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales (Center for Technical Studies and Special Materials), a Spanish government design and development establishment. While being involved in many projects CETME was mostly known for its small arms research and development. The CETME rifle is its most famous project. The CETME rifle, which was initially designed for other calibers, but eventually chambered for 7.62x51mm NATO caliber, was designed primarily by the German engineer, Ludwig Vorgrimler, who based his model on a late WWII German prototype assault rifle, the experimental StG45(M) and the development of the French-made AME 49 in Mulhouse where Vorgrimler and his team were in charge of developing the French assault rifle program. The StG45 used a roller-delayed blowback mechanism somewhat similar to the roller-locking system patented by the Edward Stecke in the 1930s in Poland and used in the MG42. The MG42 locking system actually locks completely and requires a short stroke barrel that travels backwards to unlock, compared to the StG45(M) system that never completely locks and does not require a moving barrel. Manufactured in Spain from 1957, the CETME Model A served as a blueprint for the German Heckler & Koch G3 series of battle rifles. The CETME features roller-delayed blowback operation, which it shares with many German weapons. The CETME series of battle rifles was manufactured in five models, the A, B, C, L, LC, and LV models. The primary difference in the three first models is the absence of bipod and the lightweight C model. CETME also designed the CETME C2 a 9mm advanced Sterling-like submachine gun, and the CETME Ameli (AMEtralladora LIgera) a light machine gun in 5.56x45mm NATO.
[edit] CETME battle rifles
For 50 years the CETME developed different versions of this rifle [edit] CETME A and A1[edit] CETME B[edit] CETME C
[edit] CETME E[edit] CETME L and LC
Click here to view a graphic of the various versions: 112-1 – CETME mod. B, 112-2 – CETME mod. Z, 112-3 – CETME mod. L, 112-4 – CETME mod. L, 112-5 – CETME mod. LK CETME .308 battle rifles are widely available on the civilian market in the United States. However, they are virtually all cobbled together from various surplus and American-made parts, which are often of highly questionable quality. The CETME rifles put together in this fashion by arms importers such as Century and Hesse are notorious for their poor quality and disastrous reliability issues. These rifles are often sold to unsuspecting buyers who are under the impression that they are purchasing a "clone" of the Heckler & Koch G3 rifle, which is absolutely false. After many frustrating attempts to fix up the rebuilt CETME rifles, they are often resold by the now-jaded owner, who would be lucky to break even on the sale, to another unknowing or inexperienced gun buyer, who will in time become just as frustrated with the rifle and re-sell it again. This cycle goes on and on, ad infinitum. For this reason the CETME kit-built rifle has acquired a notorious reputation among American gun enthusiasts as a real whore of a rifle. [edit] Other CETME weapon designs[edit] CETME C2The CETME C2 is a Sterling type SMG. [edit] CETME AmeliThis model was an unsuccessful attempt to replace the MG3 with a 5,56 mm Light Squad Automatic Weapon. The prototypes of the weapon were quite good, having good if not excellent performance in trials and first units, being tested not only in Spanish army but by British 22nd SAS regiment in 1984, beating FN Minimi and HK33E. Production examples had far less quality, with poorer materials. The UK Army returned their serial production units (a total of 600 purchased for SAS, SBS, and paratroopers) to Santa Bárbara and Spanish Army units did never fully replaced MG3 (which is still in service) with AMELI (with only about 300 units in service and many units with functional problems due to low quality materials; further orders were cancelled). Both models are expected to be replaced with FN Minimi (already operational) and MG4. Spanish marines lightly modified the weapon adding reinforcements and additional weldings in order to correct some functional problems. [edit] Sources and literature
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