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Brazilian armed forces have Leopard 1s. It's the love of our tank units.
Yet, I recall when they compared to the Venezuelan T-72s, they have lower mobility, higher maintenance costs, smaller calibre guns, and a ridiculously short reach for a tank.
Not like Brazil will need much more than Leo 1 for their neighbours.
Venezuela? Naval+air war and maybe infantry warfare on the rainforest? Not tanks, that is for sure. Also, fighting for jungla.
F Osório
EE-T1 Osório would still be a decent tank nowadays, judging by the data. It feels like one of these T-64 and T-72 mixed with Western tanks (usually M60 and Leopard 2) derivates that Iran and China made in the 90s and 2000s
it towed the beloved abrams, that is all the info we need
No wonder the gringos did all they could to sabotage Engesa. Nowadays, it'd likely work better - if they had a partnership with another bigger power like Pakistan or India did with China and Russia, respectively. Or a government that's actually interested in self-preservation like the DPRK or Iran.
unless we had a socialist government, is very unlikely that brazil would sell top notch weaponry to drpk.
overall i agree, brazil doing defense partnership with global south would be nice
I didn't quite mean selling, but learning how to make what we need in-house without relying on others - something DPRK and Iran did. Iran specially has developed a tank named Zulfiqar that's a lot like the EE-T1.
But you're right; we'd need a socialist government for any such events to develop. And for closer ties with the rest of the South.
my bad, i read incorrectly
Sem problemas, camarada ^^
Elaborate, please? Do you mean towed as in was better? Or towed literally?
literally towed. something as a whacky race of tanks, the abrams engine caught fire and osorio towed it
Geez. Thanks for the explanation
And they were certainly bought overpriced, as the Brazilian army is corrupt to the bone.