Between June 17th and 18th, Avibras participated in the “DemonstrArt 2016”, which took place in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy (AMAN). DemonstrArt is intended to pay homage to the Arm of Artillery, the main firing support of the national ground forces. 

 

The celebrations at AMAN starts every year on June 10th, date of anniversary of the patron of the Brazilian Arm of Artillery Marshal Emílio Mallet, and finishes with the graduation ceremony and the exposition of artillery materiel. During the ceremony, real firings are performed with the artillery equipment. 

 

Avibras took part in the ceremony with the AV-LMU launching AV-SS-09 TS rockets (training rockets), which were fired by the AVIBRAS team, supervised by the Reserve Colonel Hélio Barroso (GEDP/APLC) with the support of Major Alexandre Villa, Liaison Officer of the Brazilian Army (EB) at Avibras. 

 

Although there were different artillery materials also firing during the event, it was clear that the enthusiasm of the public when the ASTROS system performed its firing. It was an excellent opportunity for Avibras to show its great potential to young military soldiers, especially the ones in the artillery course, and to highlight to all the participants the importance of having a 100 % brazilian company as a partner of the Armed Forces and strategic to the sovereignty of the Nation.