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The EE-9 Cascavel (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐskɐˈvɛl], translated to Rattlesnake) is a six-wheeled Brazilian armoured car developed primarily for reconnaissance. It was engineered by Engesa in 1970 as a replacement for Brazil's aging fleet of M8 Greyhounds. [8]
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 ]
Older officers, trained until 1990 at the Army Officers Improvement School, still admitted to using armored vehicles as a basic weapon. The closest thing to "amphibious cavalry" would be in the Corps' tanks; the pioneers of the EE-11 Urutu in the Brazilian Navy , from 1973 to 1975, used a seahorse as a symbol.
This led to more protests in the streets. In 1975, with the help of Cyril Canabady, a lawyer, the government finally stated that every employer would have to pay a 13th-month salary. [8] In Brazil, the 13th salary, known as "Gratificação de Natal aos Trabalhadores", was initially instituted by President João Goulart in 1962.
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.
The EE-3 Jararaca is a Brazilian scout car developed for route reconnaissance, liaison, and internal security purposes. [5] It was engineered by Engesa in response to a perceived Brazilian Army requirement for a light armored car capable of replacing its unarmored utility vehicles in the liaison and security role. [5]
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.
The EE-11 Urutu is a Brazilian amphibious armored personnel carrier.It was based on the drive train and chassis components of the EE-9 Cascavel armored car and initially emerged as part of a project to develop an amphibious troop-carrying counterpart to that vehicle for the Brazilian Army and Marine Corps (CFN). [3]