How Powerful Is Brazil?
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Brazil is the largest power in Latin America, but it may have just lost sight of becoming a serious, global superpower due to a recent downturn in their...
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Brazil is the fifth most populous country on the planet and the most influential power in Latin America. But the nation may have just lost sight of becoming a serious, global superpower due to a recent downturn in their economy. So how powerful is Brazil? Well, Brazil does have the strongest military in South America but on a global scale it only ranks behind Italy and Egypt. And despite Brazil being only slightly geographically smaller than the US, it has less than a quarter of the troops the US has. The armed forces have around 500 tanks and over 1,300 Armored Fighting Vehicles. And recently, the government struck a 5.4 billion dollar deal with Saab to equip them with 36 new fighter jets. That being said, Brazil’s armed forces are currently not engaged in...
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Brazil is the fifth most populous country on the planet and the most influential power in Latin America. But the nation may have just lost sight of becoming a serious, global superpower due to a recent downturn in their economy. So how powerful is Brazil? Well, Brazil does have the strongest military in South America but on a global scale it only ranks behind Italy and Egypt. And despite Brazil being only slightly geographically smaller than the US, it has less than a quarter of the troops the US has. The armed forces have around 500 tanks and over 1,300 Armored Fighting Vehicles. And recently, the government struck a 5.4 billion dollar deal with Saab to equip them with 36 new fighter jets. That being said, Brazil’s armed forces are currently not engaged in...
