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Unarmored vehicles in Army service are classified by category (administrative or operational) and usage (transport, tractor, trailer, semi-trailer and special). Administrative vehicles perform routine activities, confidential missions and logistical support in exercises and military operations.
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.
Armored fighting vehicles are present in the CFN since July 20 1973, when the Motorized Transport Battalion received five units of the EE-11 Urutu.Armored vehicles would be used in this battalion, renamed Amphibious Vehicles Battalion in 1985, [17] [18] and in the Tank Company, created in 1980 to employ the EE-9 Cascavel. [19]
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 ...
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.
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.
Military equipment of Brazil is military equipment developed by Brazil ... Armoured fighting vehicles of Brazil (2 C, 3 P) G. Guided missiles of Brazil (4 C, 4 P) N.
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]