TAB Episode 34: CETME AMELI Light Machine Gun 

A bit confused sir. You said the MG3(42?) uses a rotating bolt? I think that's not the case

Indeed, Vic mispoke, clarified in his accompanying blog. Thanks for watching!

@@TheArmourersBench Thank you for the immediate answer! Subscribed!

@@TheArmourersBench Any Ameli sighted in Ukraine?

Much agreed. This, and the CETME L have always caught my eye. Really sharp looking guns

This gun gives me Aliens' Colonial Marine vibes

Wonderful! Thank for letting us know that's very interesting. Thanks for watching!

Van para Ucrania estos días 🇪🇸❌🇪🇸

Desde los 90s tenían las AMELIs, hay fotos de ellas en Chiapas durante la insurgencia, belleza de ametralladora

Did u have it in hands?

Thank you for sharing, love hearing the experiences of those who have used the weapons.

Gracias for sharing your recollections, it's always great to hear from people who handled them in service.

Ya gut es una ingegneria Germania deutcheland ignorante no spagnola. In Spagna sono venuti quelli che lavoravano nelle fabbriche tedesche voi spagnoli avete solo copiato. Allora grida sigh heil sigh heil sigh heil o taci che è meglio.

Hello from Cadiz. I utterly felt that "as everything we do here" part. And it really is specially the tale of every bloody weapon. Ameli, great design, horrible materials. CETME amazing design, the C version "el chopo" is one of the best rifles in existance, then they made the L to cut costs. Beautiful rifle, quite iconic, can't fucking launch 5 bullets without jamming. Got 5 billion subversions cause every soldier had to fix it their own way. Worst part is it ain't just guns. And it ain't just weapons. I can't fucking count how many spanish products share the tale of "amazing design, really well thought out. But then we cut costs, which fucked it up. And then everyone had to kinda figure out how to fix it on their own so now we have no concept of "standard" anymore." For instance that's what's going on with the public Bolsas de Trabajo. It's a nightmare to try and make that program work. And it is so because the original implementation was great, but then they fucking sent the program to the lowest bidder, who butchered it, and now the informatics of every public organization fixed it their own way, so the SAS bolsa's coding looks almost nothing like the coding from any other healthcare service's bolsa, and they all got their own unique ways of sending the poor fools trying to make sense of it to a bloody insane asylum. With good reason the Tercios just wound up having to kinda agree on letting everyone do whatever they wanted and just throwing the basic at them. Might as well let people embrace the chaos from minute 1, and get the good parts of the customization without having to go through the pain first.

No. The first ones where also shxt. I was one of the lucky/unlucky ones to get to test it. We had one that its feed cover opened up and spreaded pieces everywhere while firing. Not a nice experience.

Thanks for watching!

Just crazy, it was based on the reliable AND combat proven MG42/MG3 platform. From all the comments I've heard, every Spaniard pointed the blame at politicians for interfering with its development. Now I believe them since no country outside Spain seems to use this and even the Spanish Army doesn't seem to have one mounted on every tank or APC in their inventory.

Thanks for watching. The reputation some of the CETME guns have gain may well be unkind, we also have a video looking at a CETME L comparing it to an HK.

Es una basura de arma .

Thank you! we will do our best :)

Thanks Nick, we'll do our best!

Thank you for watching!

That adaptor should be a piece of cake to make haha.

BTW, don't 'hint' too much😉

About G36: reason it got adopted was also just the fact it's considerably cheaper than a good CETME would've been. Same as why germany adopted it. Their prior gun was better but was rejected due to weight and price. G36's biggest claim to fame is quite simply it's really fucking cheap to make. A CETME for that price range... well would've basically been the exact same rifle actually. Since they are almost identical in design already. But hey, good news. Many "G36E" factories are here and its basically not even an import in all but name at this point. So really if relations with HK break down we have all the gear to keep making them anyway.

They still make them for the navy.

Amelia 5,56 mm fue un buen diseño con excelentes prestaciones pero al abaratar el precio por unidad se recurrieron a materiales deficientes dando como resultado numerosos fallos. Fue el mismo caso que el CETME L. En consecuencia: los prototipos y preseries de evaluación eran extraordinarios pero a un precio el doble que sus competidores.

Thanks Brett, very glad you enjoyed it, hope you subbed, lots more in the pipeline. - Matt

Yes, off air😄

muzzle booster?

Yes indeed an old story when it comes to gun manufacturing. Thank you for watching!

Great idea, bad execution. If only they invested more in the later update end adjustment

The german Enginner only stay during 50 s not when this weapon was design. The team of Santa Barbara

And only work with 15 spanish enginners in Cetme A not Cetme B, C

@@larrymccoy5394 15 Spanish C.E.T.M.E.engineers and only two German engineers from Mauser (not HK), who thanks to the Spanish government were able to settle down and live in Spain freely

Resultados de la búsqueda Resultado de traducción Español Inglés Yes, of course, the German engineers were only at the beginning, then the factory followed the course, the Cetme L and the Ameli machine gun was much later, but the Ameli (light machine gun) is based on the MG 42 machine gun, ok

Pakistan manufactures EVERYTHING. Or poor clones of everything.

My evil eye is so very ready