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Brazil is moving with speed on this project...but before this one is even completed they're working on an 8x8 based on the same vehicle. Consider me impressed.
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The Brazilian Army is expected to purchase a new batch of VBTP-MR Guarani 6x6 amphibious armoured vehicles from Iveco Latin America.Amazing.
An order for 56 vehicles is scheduled to be finalised by early 2015 for about BRL200 million (USD83 million), which was allocated in Brazil's planned budged for 2015.
This new contract is to be awarded by the Logistics Command instead of by the army's Department of Science and Technology, which contracted for previous vehicle sets, as the project moves from a develop stage to procurement.
On 26 September the 100th vehicle was delivered to the army, with 128 vehicles purchased so far and scheduled to be completed by December 2014.
Brazil is moving with speed on this project...but before this one is even completed they're working on an 8x8 based on the same vehicle. Consider me impressed.
I heard something about a test with a rheinmetall 30mm Cannon and future version with a 105mm Cannon.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.forte.jor.br/2014/09/26/exercito-planeja-viatura-blindada-de-reconhecimento-vbr-versao-de-8x8-do-guarani/
ReplyDeleteWell, considering it was made with IVECO's help and it is based in part on the Freccia (which is 8x8), it only seems logical.
ReplyDeleteBut give credit where credit is due because unlike the US and its hamstrung procurement, a small nation like Brazil has designed, built and fielded a new family of vehicles. The US can't even figure out what it needs.
200 million people and the world 7th largest economy are a small nation?
DeleteThe VBTP-MR (APC) Guarani has absolutely nothing to do with the Freccia which is the APC version of the Centauro, a design of the eighties,
From the beginning the Guarani was foreseen to be developed in 2 versions: 6X6 and 8X8.
The VBTP-MR (APC) Guarani has absolutely nothing to do with the Freccia which is the APC version of the Centauro, a design of the eighties,
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning the Guarani was foreseen to be developed in 2 versions: 6X6 and 8X8.
The 6X6 had priority, since they were foreseen to equip the newly created Mechanized Infantry Brigades - total of 8.
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