Brazil set to receive final eight Gepard 1A2s

IHS Jane’s reported that Brazil will soon take delivery of its final eight Gepard 1A2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

FLAK-Panzer Gepard Übungsschießen Todendorf 1987
Derwatz at the German language Wikipedia [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Brazil ordered 34 of those vehicles back in May 2013 and they will all be assigned to the 11th Self-propelled Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery (11th Bia AAAe AP) in Ponta Grossa, State of Paraná.

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