Talk:List of modern equipment of the Brazilian Army

Semi-protected edit request on 25 October 2017

JuanSSoares (talk) 16:40, 25 October 2017 (UTC)I want to edit some parts of the page that are inaccurate, due to old age of the article if possible!

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:49, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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July 28

According to some sources around 72 M108(Spg) are in service of Brazilian army and at the same time according to some other sources it's completely retired from service. Source https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/development-m108 https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_december_2021_global_security_army_industry/brazilian_army_receives_new_batch_of_m109a5_155mm_self-propelled_howitzers.html https://militaryleak.com/2022/08/09/brazilian-army-donates-self-propelled-howitzers-and-armoured-personnel-carriers-to-uruguay/ Dl ff (talk) 04:31, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Anti-tank weapons

• SPIKE launchers will only enter service from 2024 onwards.
• The Javelin's source only proves the State Department's approval for a possible sale. There is zero evidence the deal was finalized and the weapons were delivered and entered service. You will never find it photographed in Brazilian service. Back then, Congressional opposition to this sale was reported. Since August 2022, there have been no further news on this topic. It's fair to assume that failed, shelved or abandoned negotiations don't make the news. Therefore, until further information appears, Brazil owns 0 Javelins.
• It's hard to find evidence of the ALAC after 2016.
• The Eryx and Milan have been retired, though admittedly the only source on this, dating from 2021, is weak from Wikipedia's standpoint. In fact, they're an obscure topic and there are few sources even from when they were in service. This Army study from 2021 claims the Milan is still in service with paratroopers, but then interviews 33 of them and 97% reply they've never seen it! The remaining 3% said they've handled, but never operated it. The respondents belonged to several ranks, including colonels, so those 3% are likely older servicemen. In any case, there will never be an official source explaining when the Eryx and Milan were retired. The IISS's The Military Balance still lists them in service, and might still list them 100 years from now because they're waiting for news that will never come.
• The MSS-1.2 is four decade old vaporware. Some units have been used for testing, but as of 2023 it isn't in service.

I've removed unsourced numbers and the Javelin, Eryx, Milan and MSS from this list. I'd be eager to see more information on the Eryx and Milan. Serraria (talk) 02:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

August 2024 revision

I've rewritten this article, top to bottom, to make sure every single entry in this list has a reference. It's far too easy and tempting to edit lists like these without adding a source, or replacing sourced information and keeping the source. Sometimes these contributions are correct, sometimes well-intentioned but poorly informed and sometimes they're vandalism (example). In any case, they pile up year after year until a dip back into the sources is needed for all entries.

I've defined this article's scope as equipment which can be proven to be used in the past 20 years (arbitrary, I know) and cannot be proven to have been phased out of service. As a matter of rigor and humility, the "Period" column always specifies the latest year in which the entry's usage may be confirmed. This is overkill for well documented items such as tanks, but for others such as trucks, the best written confirmation you can find might be from the middle of the past decade. Nobody's compiling comprehensive lists every year, as the IISS does for tanks, and the Army won't make formal announcements whenever it buys a new truck or phases another out of service. Not because trucks are irrelevant, but because they're too mundane. And look at this photographic compilation, there's no standardization. You will never find the military truck or administrative car, it looks like a smattering of civilian models, purchased piecemeal. It is quixotic to pursue a comprehensive and up to date list of trucks. I've only included them out of consideration for previous editions of this page, and similar lists on this site. For many other cases, such as shotguns, official Army sources don't bother to specify models. It's a 12 gauge shotgun and that's all they need to know.

Not to mention that the Brazilian military is largely isolated from society, the broader public is apathetic towards military matters and there are only a handful of professional military journalists. There are some things for which you will never find a fully Wikipedia-appropriate source. I found none for hand grenades and so they don't have a section anymore. There are plenty of other things such lists don't cover, such as electronic warfare equipment.

Another self-imposed rule was to exclude experimental designs. My policy is materialism. If a technology hasn't entered operational service and can't be used in war yet, it doesn't belong in this list. National technologies stuck in development hell and potential (but not even confirmed) foreign purchases give off an inflated picture of Brazilian military power. Drop a bucket of cold water on haste and patriotic fervor. Look at the AV-TM 300, sources as recent as December 2023 and April 2024 confirm it isn't in service. At the moment it provides no deterrence and cannot be fired at any enemy.

Certainly some items I've omitted may be readmitted with proper sourcing. This page has no shortage of contributors. Someone may look into a more consistent standard for the "Origin" column for nationally produced foreign designs. And someone may completely change my formatting, too. I do hope the "notes" columns isn't readmitted and any such information is handled by existing columns and actual footnotes; it tends to be inconsistent. Serraria (talk) 00:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)