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During operations in the Nahr el-Bared camp in North Lebanon, lacking any airworthy, fixed-wing strike aircraft, the Lebanese Army modified several UH-1H Huey helicopters to permit the carrying of 500 pound Mark 82 and 1000 pound Mark 83 bombs (all unguided iron bombs, also known as dumb bombs) as well as Matra SNEB 68 mm rocket pods (taken ...
Delivery in 2009 4 M60A3 TTS and 6 M60A3 IFCS ref. Lebanese Army magazine issue of December 2009 issue number 294. M48: A5PI United States: 66 Delivery in 1984 of a total number of 106. Used by the 5th Infantry brigade and the 1st Armoured regiment which brings the total number to 81. As of 2024, the Lebanese army operates and maintains 66 ...
On display at the Lebanese Air Force Museum. [3] Aérospatiale Alouette III: 14: On display at the Lebanese Air Force Museum. [3] Aérospatiale Gazelle: 17: 8 were bought in the 1980s and 9 were donated by the UAE in 2004. Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma: 15: 5 were bought during the Lebanese Civil War and 10 were donated by the UAE. Robinson R44: 6
After Israel assassinated a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and a Hamas leader in Tehran last month, the U.S. military moved two aircraft carrier groups and a guided missile submarine into the ...
Two days later, the Lebanese Army entered Arsal in full force and reestablished control over checkpoints that the militants had previously seized. [42] On July 21, 2017, Hezbollah, the Syrian Armed Forces and the Lebanese Army launched a military operation against ISIS and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham positions on the Lebanon–Syria border.
This brought the strength of the Vichy French Air Force in Lebanon and Syria up to 289 aircraft, including about 35 state-of-the-art Dewoitine D.520 fighters and some new, US-built Glenn Martin 167 light bombers. This initially gave the Vichy French an edge over the Allied air units.
The Lebanese Civil War was a multi-sided military conflict that pitted a variety of local irregular militias, both Muslim and Christian, against each other between 1975 and 1990. A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies and factions operating in the Lebanese Civil War .
The Army of the Levant (Armée du Levant) identifies the armed forces of France and then Vichy France which occupied a portion of the "Levant" during the "interwar period" and early World War II. In 1920, the French were given a mandate over Syria and Lebanon by the League of Nations.