BRAZIL · DEFENSE
Key Facts
—The test: Brazil tested its homegrown SABER M200 Vigilante Brazilian air-defense radar against a SAAB F-39 Gripen fighter at Anápolis airbase between May 11 and May 15, the first such test against a 4.5-generation jet.
—The exercise: The radar trials ran inside the wider joint exercise Escudo-Tínia, organized by Brazil’s defense ministry and coordinated by the Air Force from May 11 to May 29, with units of all three services taking part.
—Who runs it: The Army Evaluation Center, known by its Brazilian acronym CAEx, sent military engineers from Marambaia, Rio de Janeiro, to Anápolis to integrate the radar with Army anti-aircraft artillery units for the first time.
