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Victor Barreira

Rio de Janeiro

Journalist at Freelance

by Victor Barreira & André Ribeiro 🫡. Defence Industry & Military Forces News Channel in 🇬🇧 & 🇵🇹. 📩 : [email protected] & IG : defence360_

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  • 1 week ago | janes.com | Victor Barreira

    Edge Group displayed its Reach-S medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle at the LAAD Defence & Security exhibition in April 2025. (Victor Barreira)United Arab Emirates (UAE) defence conglomerate Edge Group significantly increased its presence at the LAAD Defence & Security 2025 exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, held from 1 to 4 April.

  • 2 weeks ago | janes.com | Victor Barreira

    Brazil is looking to acquire the two Albion-class amphibious assault ships of the Royal Navy (HMS Bulwark is pictured). (Victor Barreira)The Surface Command Force of the Brazilian Navy appears to be looking to bolster its amphibious fleet with the UK Royal Navy (RN) amphibious assault ships Albion (L14) and Bulwark (L15).

  • 2 weeks ago | janes.com | Victor Barreira

    The OPVs of the NPO3S tranche will complement the Portuguese Navy's existing fleet of four Viana do Castelo-class OPVs, including NRP Sines (pictured here). (Victor Barreira)The modernisation of the surface fleet of the Portuguese Navy reached a significant milestone on 31 March with the start of the construction of the first of six additional Viana do Castelo-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) at West Sea – Estaleiros Navais' shipyard in Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal.

  • 4 weeks ago | janes.com | Victor Barreira

    A new maintenance yard has been activated for S HumaitĆ” (pictured here) and other Brazilian Navy submarines. (Brazilian Navy) The Brazilian Navy formally activated a maintenance shipyard on 17 March to service its Riachuelo-class diesel-electric-powered attack submarines starting later in 2025, the Navy Directorate-General for Material (Diretoria-Geral do Material da Marinha: DGMM) told Janes .

  • 1 month ago | janes.com | Victor Barreira

    Avibras has designed the Astros III AV-LMU missile and rocket launcher to offer significant artillery saturation firepower. (Avibras)The Brazilian Navy's Marine Corps is establishing an Anti-ship Missile Battery within the Marine Artillery Battalion (Batalhão de Artilharia de Fuzileiros Navais: BtlArtFuzNav), creating a coastal defence missile capability, General Commander of the Marine Corps Fleet Admiral Carlos Chagas Vianna Braga said on 13 March.

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