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The Army's arsenal of firearms (individual and collective) was estimated at 299,300 weapons in 2010: 52,100 pistols, 500 revolvers, 9,100 submachine guns, 89,000 bolt-action rifles, 143,300 automatic rifles and 5,300 medium machine guns. 1,800 heavy machine guns, 800 81-milimeter mortars and 400 60-milimiter mortars were counted separately as light weapons. [1]
Pages in category "Brazilian Army" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... List of modern equipment of the Brazilian Army; M.
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After 1869, when command of the Imperial Brazilian Army was given to the Count of Eu, firearms were once again valued. Carbine squadrons were separated from lancers and grouped into ad hoc units. They had great success with the modern Spencer carbine. After the war the infantry lost the distinction between caçadores and fusileiros. The cavalry ...
The Brazilian Army was the pioneer in the military use of aerial assets in South America during the Paraguayan War. During the Siege of Humaitá in 1867, the Brazilian commander, the Duke of Caxias , requested tethered balloons to observe the Paraguayan positions, as the terrain was flat and the precarious wooden observation posts, called ...
Military equipment of Brazil is military equipment developed by Brazil. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ...
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force (Portuguese: Força Expedicionária Brasileira, FEB), nicknamed Cobras Fumantes (literally "the Smoking Snakes"), [1] was a military division of the Brazilian Army and Air Force that fought as part of Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II.
The Brazilian Army (Portuguese: Exército Brasileiro; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordinating itself, in the Federal Government's structure, to the Ministry of Defense, alongside the Brazilian Navy and Air Force.