Vanessa Cabral Gomes, Janann Joslin Medeiros
The aim of this work is to present the trajectory of the Brazilian Defense Industrial Base, focusing on the wheeled armored vehicle (VBR) segment, retrieving data from the two companies that produced VBR in Brazil: Engesa and Iveco. As for the method, it is an exploratory qualitative research, with bibliographic and documentary research. The results found indicate that policies for the Defense Sector during the military regime were able to place Brazil in a prominent position in technological terms. However, although there has been an effort on the part of the government to resume investments in the sector, the policies developed since the 2000s are not being able to accumulate technological and innovative capacity in national firms. The main contribution of this research is to provide a historical overview of more than 60 years of the trajectory of wheeled armored vehicles in Brazil, comparing information from the two companies that produced VBR.