{"id":60938,"date":"2025-09-27T23:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60938"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:34:16","slug":"a-test-of-the-old-spanish-cetme-b-assault-rifle-and-its-history-with-the-french-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/27\/a-test-of-the-old-spanish-cetme-b-assault-rifle-and-its-history-with-the-french-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"A test of the old Spanish CETME B assault rifle and its history with the French Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish CETME assault rifle is an excellent weapon created in 1949 and adopted by the Spanish Army in 1957, with a 7.92 x 40 mm Cetme caliber.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/03\/el-fusil-espanol-m43-coruna-un-analisis-que-lo-califica-como-el-peor-rifle-de-francotirador\/\">The Spanish M43 Coru\u00f1a rifle: an analysis that qualifies it as \u201cthe worst sniper rifle\u201d<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/30\/the-history-of-the-luger-the-most-famous-pistol-of-world-war-ii\/\">The history of the Luger, the most famous pistol of World War II<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CETME B version was developed in 1957 by agreement with the German company Heckler & Koch.<\/strong> This version (which was the rifle my father used for his military service) had a folding bipod and a flash hider with which grenades could be launched. <strong>This model could use two very similar cartridges: the 7.62 x 51 Cetme and the 7.62 x 51 NATO<\/strong>. Heckler & Koch ended up marketing this model without a bipod, under a name that would become famous throughout the world: G-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54816167283_2c52367b83_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54816167283_629df8ed4c_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two weeks ago, Ian McCollum tested an old modified CETME B<\/strong> (it can only fire semi-automatically) in a video posted on his popular YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Weapons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"French Marine Commando 2-Gun: CETME-B &amp; MAC-50\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EgZHnLePcH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video, <strong>McCollum tells the story of a consignment of 200 CETME B rifles and ammunition that ended up in the hands of French Naval Commandos in 1961<\/strong> during the Algerian War, when the military force raided a cargo ship carrying the weapons clandestinely in order to deliver them to Algerian rebels. <strong>The Spanish weapons ended up in a depot at the French naval base at Mers El K\u00e9bir<\/strong> on the Algerian coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54815906186_2fa410d0a2_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54815906186_e73874e957_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>French Marine Commandos saw the quality of the CETME Bs and ended up using them<\/strong>, as they were better than their MAS 49\/56 semi-automatic rifles, which only had a 10-round capacity. In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/french-marine-commandos-with-cetme-rifles\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Weapons website published these two photos of French Marine Commandos with these seized CETME Bs<\/a>, being used by said Commandos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54816164454_b4411973fe_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54816164454_14789f6d72_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the video, McCollum comments that the CETME B is an accurate, efficient, and comfortable rifle<\/strong>, despite being larger and heavier than many modern assault rifles. It should be noted that <strong>the CETME C and CETME L that are being sold in some countries, especially the US, have a very good reputation among their buyers<\/strong>, despite the criticism that the CETME L received during its service in the Spanish Army due to manufacturing defects.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Images: Forgotten Weapons.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish CETME assault rifle is an excellent weapon created in 1949 and adopted by the Spanish Army in 1957, with a 7.92 x 40 mm Cetme caliber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11548,19534],"tags":[8664,12622,12624,14360,19984,25380,25381,25382],"class_list":["post-60938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armament","category-defense-portada-eng","tag-cetme-c","tag-french-navy","tag-marine-national-francaise","tag-cetme-b","tag-cetme-l","tag-commandos-marine","tag-heckler-koch-g-3","tag-algerian-war"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 23:31:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}