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The CETME B rifle in 7.62×51mm CETME was adopted as the Fusil de Asalto CETME Modelo 1958 de 7,62mm by the Spanish Army in September 1957 [8] and its production began in Spain during 1961. [9] The CETME series of battle rifles were manufactured in four basic models; the A, B, C and E models.
So, in the early 1960s, the first prototype was designed and was named the Calzada Bayo-61 after Joaquin de la Calzada de Bayo. [3] The design was taken from the Sterling L2A3 and had a vertical feed instead of a horizontal feed which the CETME C2 & Sterling SMG has. [4] For the next few years the CB-61 was improved upon & the CB-64 was created ...
The weapon is based on the Heckler & Koch G3 and HK91 design, which itself is a variant of the Spanish-made CETME rifle.The United States Federal Assault Weapons Ban enacted in 1994, by President Bill Clinton, prohibited certain cosmetic features of the HK91, which meant that the HK91 and its variants could no longer be manufactured and sold to the US civilian market in their original ...
While designing the CETME Modelo B and under recommendation of Heckler & Koch, the decision was made that the updated version of the original CETME Modelo A would chamber the more powerful 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. When the Modelo B was adopted by the Spanish military as the Modelo 58 in 1958, 7.62×51mm CETME was the standard rifle cartridge ...
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CETME (Spanish: Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales, lit. 'Centre for Technical Studies of Special Materials') [1] is 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 Model L replaced the 7.62mm CETME Model C in service with the Spanish Army [2] and the first rifles were delivered in 1987, by which time orders for approximately 60,000 had been placed. [3] From 1999 onwards the Model L has now been largely replaced in Spanish service with a license-built variant of the Heckler & Koch G36E. [2]
However, the newly formed West German Army now displayed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles for further testing. The CETME, known as the Automatisches Gewehr G3, competed successfully against the SIG SG 510 (G2) and AR-10 (G4) to replace the previously favored G1 rifle. In January 1959, the Bundeswehr officially adopted the ...