Flag of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces
Service branches
Army
Navy
Air Force
Headquarters
Ministry of Defense, Brasília
Leadership
Supreme Commander
Lula da Silva
Minister of Defence
José Múcio
Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces
Renato Freire
Personnel
Military age
18–45 years of age for compulsory military service
Conscription
10 to 12 months
Active personnel
360,000[1]
Reserve personnel
340,000[1]
Expenditures
Budget
US$24.7 billion (2024)[2] (ranked 17th)
Percent of GDP
0.6% (2023)[3]
Industry
Domestic suppliers
List
Embraer Avibras NUCLEP CBC IMBEL Taurus Helibras EMGEPRON Agrale Mectron Aero Bravo Iveco Brazil Leonardo Brazil ICN TKMS MAN Latin America Odebrecht Indústria Aeronáutica Neiva Troller INACE Usiminas XMobots Condor S/A Industria Aeronáutica e Serviços - IAS
Foreign suppliers
List
United States France Germany Spain Russia Japan Republic of Korea Turkey United Kingdom Sweden Poland Italy Australia Canada Ukraine India
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History
Military history of Brazil Warfare directory of Brazil Wars involving Brazil Battles involving Brazil
Ranks
Military ranks of Brazil
The Brazilian Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas Brasileiras, IPA:[ˈfoʁsɐzɐʁˈmadɐzbɾaziˈlejɾɐs]) are the unified military forces of the Federative Republic of Brazil. Consisting of three service branches, it comprises the Brazilian Army (including the Brazilian Army Aviation), the Brazilian Navy (including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation) and the Brazilian Air Force (including the Aerospace Operations Command).[4]
Brazil's armed forces are the second largest in the Americas, after the United States, and the largest in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere by the level of military equipment, with 334,500 active-duty troops and officers.[5][6] Brazilian soldiers were in Haiti from 2004 until 2017, leading the United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH).[7]
^ abInternational Institute for Strategic Studies (15 February 2023). The Military Balance 2023. London: Routledge. p. 383. ISBN 9781032508955.
^"Defense Budget by Country (2024)". Global Firepower. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
^Tian, Nan; Fleurant, Aude; Kuimova, Alexandra; Wezeman, Pieter D.; Wezeman, Siemon T. (24 April 2022). "Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2021" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Archived from the original on 25 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
^According to article 144 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, the para-military Military Police alongside the Military Firefighters Corps are constitutionally considered an auxiliary and potential reserve to the Army, though subordinate to the state governors. They can, however, be compelled to federal service under a statute similar to posse comitatus[1]. Archived August 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^IISS 2012, pp. 376–378
^Uma Nova Agenda Militar Archived 2017-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Revista Época. Retrieved on 16 April 2015.
^"Brazilian troops leave Haiti". 31 August 2017.
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