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By IISS estimates, the Brazilian Army fielded over 2,250 armored fighting vehicles in 2023, the highest number in Latin America, although modern models were a minority of this total. This number includes 292 main battle tanks and 1,466 armored personnel carriers . [ 2 ]
The Brazilian Army has signed with Iveco a contract worth about €2.5 billion for supplying armoured personnel carriers of the VBTP-MR model. The vehicles will replace the old Urutu armoured vehicle employed today by the Brazilian armed forces. The contract covers the delivery of 2,044 vehicles and logistical support for a period of 20 years.
This list shows the present and future strategic re-equipment and modernization programs of the Brazilian Armed Forces that was based on the documents of the National Defense Strategy of 2008, and subsequent versions of the Defense White Paper that outline the major defense programs in Brazil from 2008 until 2040.
M-80A infantry fighting vehicle (planned to be upgrade to M-98 Vidra) BOV M-86 armoured personnel carrier, used by military police; M-84AI armoured recovery vehicle version of M-84, used in tank battalions; BOV-1 antitank guided missile vehicle; Lazar BVT mine resistant, ambush protected armoured fighting vehicle
Already in 1966 an article in the military periodical A Defesa Nacional had argued that the state of national automotive industry, highways and Petrobras fuel production made it viable to locally produce an 8–10 ton, 6x6 armoured vehicle, [12] and by 1970 the Brazilian Army was developing an updated Greyhound known simply by its Portuguese ...
In the Brazilian Army, the cavalry is the branch that most represents fire and movement together, and it is the one that operates the heavy means ahead of the offensives. [8] Soldiers disembarking from an EE-11 Urutu. These vehicles' characteristics are also attributed to armored transports such as the Urutu.
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.
20 Brazil. 21 Brunei. 22 Bulgaria. 23 Burkina Faso. 24 Burundi. ... List of currently active Spain military land vehicles; List of active Spanish military aircraft ...