Amazon warriors expand their missions

Brazilian Army Aviation Thirty-three years since its re-establishment, Brazilian Army Aviation is modernising and taking on a wider spectrum of missions, including counterterrorism and helping to preserve the country’s law and order. Santiago Rivas and João Paulo Moralez investigate. The Exército Brasileiro (EB, Brazilian Army) first made use of air power in 1867, when it successfully employed balloons to reconnoitre the battlefields during the Paraguayan War. In 1914, on the personal initiative of Lieutenant Ricardo João Kirk, a number of