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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]
National Defense Council (Brazil) Brazil and weapons of mass destruction; Policing in Brazil. Military Police of Brazilian States; Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar: Military Police of the State of São Paulo. BOPE: Special Police Operations Battalion of the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Military Police of Rio de ...
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.
Weapons of Brazil (6 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Military equipment of Brazil" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Ministry of Defence. This list shows the past, 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.
The Argentine Army's TOW2B missiles outrange the Brazilian Army's 105 millimeter Leopard 1 tank guns. [12] The first attempt to develop an anti-tank missile in Brazil was around 1958, at the Army Technical School (present-day Military Institute of Engineering), but the studies were abandoned in favor of the German Cobra missile.
World War II infantry weapons of Brazil (18 P) Pages in category "Weapons of Brazil" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Brazil: Service history; Used by: Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy, Brazilian Military Police, Battalion of Special Operations, Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais and National Force (Brazil) [citation needed] Production history; Designed: 1983: Manufacturer: IMBEL: Produced: 1985 - Variants: MD-1, MD-2, MD-3 and MD-4: Specifications ...