Global Insider: Brazil’s Complex Defense Industry is Not for Amateurs
By The Editors,
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Global Insider

Brazil recently launched a $480 million effort to develop precision missiles and rockets, part of a larger effort to revitalize its defense sector. In an email interview, Salvador Raza, a former Brazilian naval officer and current adjunct professor at National Defense University, and Peterson Silva, a doctoral student at the University of Sao Paulo, discussed the state of the Brazilian defense sector.
WPR: To what degree is Brazil independent in terms of arms production, and what systems does it need to import? ...


