Recent Leopards in Brazil

In January, the supply of the last batch of 250 Leopard 1A5 tanks for Brazil. In this way the completed contract to purchase the cars from the Bundeswehr inventory, signed in December 2008.


German Leopards 1A5BR significantly enhance the potential for Brazilian armored units of ground troops. They had been only 128 Leopard 1 tanks, but the older model A1, and 91 U.S. M-60 A3TTS, the technologically less advanced than recently purchased cars / Photo: MO Brazil

First delivery - including 10 cars, delivered straight from the German magazine for training - went to Brazil in early 2009. Another 20 vehicles passed after disassembly. All will eventually be used as a warehouse of spare parts.

The first of 220 tanks, renovated and equipped with a Brazilian communications and command systems by Krauss Maffei Wegmann, reached the recipient in October 2009. The last to be unloaded from a ship in January of this year.


Under the same agreement Germany sold and delivered in 2010-2011 seven technical security vehicles, 4 tanks and 4 vehicles, bridge engineering. The training package included four tanks driving, simulators, simulators including four fully equipped tower.

Combat vehicles go to the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5 Tank Regiment, as well - along with copies of school - to the training center crews of armored vehicles to them. Walter Pires. Tanks in specialized variants reinforce the 4th, 5th and 10 logistics battalion and 5 and 12 armored engineering battalion.