After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed the location of the sunken warship Vital de Oliveira. The vessel transported troops during ...

The Brazilian government on 12 February formally approved an ambitious effort to strengthen Brazil's defence technological ...

On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 torpedoed the Vital de Oliveira, sinking it and killing about 100 of the 270 ...

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira ...

Brazilian manufacturer Stella Tecnologia has started land-based flight tests with the company's Albatroz remotely piloted ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo ...

The Tamandaré-class Frigate Programme (Programa Fragatas Classe Tamandaré: PFCT) of the Brazilian Navy is scheduled to ...

Brazilian Navy Physician Maria Cecília Barbosa da Silva Conceição made history Tuesday when she became the first black woman to be promoted to the rank of admiral. Her promotion was approved in ...

The Brazilian Navy (Portuguese: Marinha do Brasil) is the naval service branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces, responsible for conducting naval operations. The Brazilian Navy is the largest navy in ...

As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper that it could not confirm whether the hulk lying 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the coast was indeed the ship in question.