Engesa
| Engesa - Engenheiros Especializados S / A
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| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 1963 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Seat | São José dos Campos |
| Number of employees | 5,000 |
| Branch | Defense technology |
Engesa - Engenheiros Especializados S / A was a Brazilian arms company that produced all types of military vehicles . The company existed from 1963 to 1993 and employed up to 5,000 people.
history
Engesa was founded as a private company in 1963 to modernize obsolete military vehicles from World War II . At the same time, the Brazilian military strove to develop wheel-based armored vehicles. Engesa was entrusted with this task. In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, the EE-3, EE-9 and EE-11 armored vehicles were developed, all of which are based on the same chassis . These armored vehicles were exported all over the world, mainly to countries in the Middle East , Latin America and Africa .
By the mid-1980s, Engesa had grown into a flourishing company with twelve subsidiaries and around 5,000 employees. At the same time, the armaments company decided to develop the EE-T1 Osório main battle tank on its own initiative . A total of over $ 100 million was invested, but no buyer could be found. Although Saudi Arabia expressed interest in the EE-T1 after the Second Gulf War , the emirate decided to purchase the US M1 Abrams for political reasons . The lack of sales of the tank and the horrendous expenditure on development represented a financial catastrophe for the company, so that Engesa went bankrupt in 1993 . Emgesa was then broken up: some parts were taken over by investors, others dissolved.
Products
The company produced a wide variety of military equipment for the Brazilian armed forces and for foreign forces. These include:
- the reconnaissance tank EE-3 Jararaca
- the armored car EE-9 Cascavel
- the transport tank EE-11 Urutu
- the all-terrain vehicle EE-12
- the EE-15 pickup truck
- the tank destroyer EE-17 Sucuri I
- the tank destroyer EE-18 Sucuri II
- the trucks EE-25, EE-34 and EE-50
- the EE-T1 Osório main battle tank
Web links
- Company description on www.globalsecurity.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f company history at www.globalsecurity.org (English)
- ↑ Description of the EE-25 at www.janes.com (English)
- ↑ Description of the EE-34 at www.janes.com (English)
- ↑ Description of the EE-50 at www.janes.com (English)