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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
Brazil and South Africa come to mind as arms exporters.
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Twilight War South Africa . . . I'd think it largely implodes, but with some areas hanging on. Possibly even some industrial areas -- and SADF was already heavily in the market for lighter/cheaper AFVs that would be easier to keep in production if things were stable enough for it.
Brazil is pretty much the same -- both in terms of capability and questionable ability to keep their situation together enough to use it post-TDM. Very large agricultural sector in that country but it's mostly agribusiness for export and they're actually a net importer of even basic staples like rice and beans (food is comparatively very expensive in Brazil). In the Twilight timeline, Brazil may have been actively producing the EE-T1 Osorio MBT that didn't make it IRL at least in part due to the end of the Cold War.
Argentina also has the production line for the TAM light tank or medium tank and vehicles based on that hull.
Not sure if anyone else in South America had any even light AFV production capability, but may be forgetting something.