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CETME
Company type
Private
Industry
Firearms
Founded
1949
Headquarters
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Ludwig Vorgrimler, Engineer
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 Spanish government hired former semiautomatic weapon designers from the Third Reich[2] for the organization.
The CETME Model 58 and CETME Model L are its most notable projects. CETME also designed the CETME C2 9mm submachine gun, and the CETME Ameli light machine gun in 5.56×45mm NATO.
^Thompson, Leroy (30 May 2019). The G3 Battle Rifle. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4728-2863-7. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^Haskew, Michael E. (20 April 2017). Rifles and Muskets: From 1450 to the present day. Amber Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78274-268-5. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
organization. The CETME Model 58 and CETME Model L are its most notable projects. CETME also designed the CETME C2 9mm submachine gun, and the CETME Ameli light...
The CETME Model 58 is a stamped-steel, select-fire battle rifle produced by the Spanish armaments manufacturer Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales...
The CETME C2 (also named the CB-64,) is a Spanish submachine gun based on the British Sterling L2A3. It is an open bolt, blowback operated firearm that...
The CETME Model L is a Spanish 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the late 1970s at the state-owned small arms research and development establishment...
owned and operated Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales (CETME) small arms research institute (founded by the Spanish government in 1950)...
most commonly associated with the design of the Spanish roller-delayed CETME rifle, and its prolific offspring from the German gunmaker Heckler & Koch...
Mausers and Karabiner 98k rifles as training rifles until enough of the CETME rifles were in stock to train all recruits. Chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO...
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...
evolved into the CETME rifle, later adopted in 1958 by the Spanish Army as the Assault Rifle Model 58. In 1956 the German Army bought 400 CETME rifles. After...
introduced in the 1950s when the Spanish military was already implementing the CETME automatic rifle, but did not yet have sufficient inventory to equip and...
between 1946 and 1949. Vorgrimler later went to work at CETME in Spain and developed the line of CETME automatic rifles based on his improved StG 45 design...
Executive TP9 Elite SC TP9 DA TP9 SFL Draco Pistol C308 (a clone of the CETME rifle) C39/C39V2 (clones of the AK-47) L1A1 RAS47 (clone of the AKM) SKS...
post-war development of roller-delayed blowback system, as employed in issued CETME, SIG and Heckler & Koch small arms. The T24 machine gun was a prototype...
house). CETMe also offers short courses on Educational media and technology, Online course for medical practitioners on old age psychiatry. CETMe won 09...
between 1946 and 1949. Vorgrimler later went to work at CETME in Spain and developed the line of CETME automatic rifles based on his improved Stg45 design...
niche and flourished, or slowly perished. In Spain alone Star, Astra and CETME met their end. The final years at Star saw a relative flurry of new models...
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