List of weapons of the Lebanese Civil War explained
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. Combatants included:
- the leftist-Muslim militias of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) coalition (1975 – 1982):
- the rightist-Christian militias of the Lebanese Front coalition (1976 – 1980):
- the Christian Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia (1961 – 1980);
- the Christian Al-Tanzim militia (1969 – 1990);
- the Christian Guardians of the Cedars (GoC) militia (1974 – 2000);
- the Christian Tigers Militia (a.k.a. Al-Noumour, Noumour Al-Ahrar, Noumours, NLP Tigers) militia (1968 – 1991);
- the Christian Zgharta Liberation Army (ZLA, a.k.a. Al-Marada, Marada Brigade, Mardaite Brigade) militia (1967 – 1991);
- the Christian Tyous Team of Commandos (TTC, a.k.a. "Tyous" for short, also translated as the "Stubborn Ones" or "Les Têtus", "Les Obstinés") militia (1975 – 1985);
- the Christian Lebanese Youth Movement (LYM, a.k.a. Maroun Khoury Group – MKG) militia (1975 – 1977);
- the Christian Young Men militia (1978 – 1986);
- the Christian Zahliote Group (ZG, a.k.a. Groupement Zahliote – GZ) militia (1975 – 1981);
- the Christian Shuraya Party's Assyrian Battalion (AB) militia (1978 – 1981);
- the Christian Maronite Monks militia (1975 – 1980);
- the Christian Maronite League militia (1952 – present);
- the Christian Army of Free Lebanon (AFL), dissident faction of the Lebanese Army (1976 – 1978);
- the Druze Vanguard of the Maani Army (Movement of the Druze Jihad) (VMA – MDJ) militia (1976 – 1978);
- the Christian Lebanese Forces militia (LF), successor of the Lebanese Front and the KRF militia (1977 – 1994);
- the Christian Lebanese Forces – Executive Command (LFEC) militia, dissident faction of the LF (1985 – 1991);
- the Kurdish Democratic Party – Lebanon (KDP-L) militia (1975 – 1991);
- the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) urban guerrilla group (1975 – 1991);
- the Alawite Arab Democratic Party's Arab Red Knights (ARK) militia (1981 – 1991);
- the Shia Muslim Amal Movement militia (1975 – present);
- the Shia Muslim Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) urban guerrilla group (1983 – 1992);
- the Shia Muslim Hezbollah guerrilla group (1985 – present);
- the Sunni Muslim Islamic Unification Movement (IUM, a.k.a. Al-Tawheed) militia (1982 – present);
- the United Nasserite Organization (UNO) guerrilla group (1986 – 1991);
- the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) urban guerrilla group (1979 – 1988);
- the Lebanese Liberation Front (LLF) urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1989);
- the Popular Revolutionary Resistance Organization (PRRO) urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1990);
- the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) urban guerrilla group (1980 – 1983);
- the Liberation Battalion urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1988);
- the Sons of the South (SotS) guerrilla group (1983 – 1995);
- the South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia (1978 – 2000);
- the official Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Internal Security Forces (ISF), led by the Lebanese government;
- the mainstream Palestinian guerrilla factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the breakaway Rejectionist Front (present in Lebanon from 1968 to 1983);
- the Palestine Liberation Army (present in Lebanon from 1976 to 1990);
- the Syrian Army (present in Lebanon from 1976 to 2005);
- the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (present in Lebanon from 1978 to 2000);
- in between, a plethora of irregular Lebanese armed groups that emerged from the wrecks of both the LNM and the Lebanese Front alliances, after their collapse in the early 1980s.
Weapons and equipment
The list below comprises all the weapons and equipment employed by the LNM, Lebanese Front, LAA, AFL, LF, IUM, Hezbollah, Al-Mourabitoun, NLA, Druze PLA, SLA, LAF, ISF, and lesser Lebanese groups (note: the Syrian Army, PLO, Palestinian PLA and IDF are not included on this list).
Pistols and revolvers
Grenade systems
Land mine systems
Anti-tank rocket and grenade launchers
Rocket and missile systems
Armoured vehicles
Vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices
Naval craft
See also
References
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- Simon Dunstan, Panhard Armoured Car: 1961 Onwards (AML 60, AML 90, Eland), Enthusiasts' Manual, Haynes Publishing UK, Somerset 2019.
- Simon Dunstam, Terry Hadler and David E. Smith, The M113 series, Vanguard series 34, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1983.
- Steven J. Zaloga, Armour of the Middle East Wars 1948-78, Vanguard series 19, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1981.
- Steven J. Zaloga, ZSU-23-4 Shilka & Soviet Air Defense Gun Vehicles, Concord Publications, Hong Kong 1993.
- Steven J. Zaloga, Tank battles of the Mid-East Wars (2): The wars of 1973 to the present, Concord Publications, Hong Kong 2003. – https://archive.org/details/tankbattlesmidea00zalo_215
- Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Kinnear and Peter Sarson, T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944-94, New Vanguard series 20, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1996.
- Steven J. Zaloga and Peter Bull, Staghound armored car 1942-62, New Vanguard series 159, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2000.
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- Tom Cooper & Efim Sandler, Lebanese Civil War Volume 2: Quiet before the Storm, 1978-1981, Middle East@War No. 41, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull UK 2021.
- Tom Cooper & Efim Sandler, Lebanese Civil War Volume 3: Moving to War, 4–7 June 1982, Middle East@War No. 51, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull UK 2022.
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- Leroy Thompson, The G3 Battle Rifle, Weapon series 68, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2019.
- Leigh Neville, Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces, New Vanguard series 257, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2018.
- Ludovic Fortin, T17E1 Staghound Armored Car – Le char sur roues, Trucks & Tracks Magazine No. 5, December 2007–January 2008, Caraktère, Marseille, pp. 48–67. (in French)
- Moustafa El-Assad, Blue Steel: T-55 tanks in South Lebanon, Blue Steel books, Sidon 2006.
- Moustafa El-Assad, Blue Steel 2: M-3 Halftracks in South Lebanon, Blue Steel books, Sidon 2006.
- Moustafa El-Assad, Blue Steel III: M-113 Carriers in South Lebanon, Blue Steel books, Sidon 2007.
- Moustafa El-Assad, Blue Steel IV: M-50 Shermans and M-50 APCs in South Lebanon, Blue Steel books, Sidon 2007.
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- N.R. Jenzen-Jones & Damien Spleeters, Identifying & Tracing the FN Herstal FAL Rifle: Documenting signs of diversion in Syria and beyond, Armament Research Services Pty. Ltd., Australia, August 2015. – http://armamentresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ARES-Field-Guide-No.-1-Identifying-Tracing-the-FN-Herstal-FAL-Rifle.pdf
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- Paul Jackson, "Mirage III/5/50 Variant Briefing: Part 1: Dassault's Delta", World Air Power Journal, Volume 14, Autumn/Fall 1993, pp. 112–137, London: Aerospace Publishing.,
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- Pedro Manuel Monteiro, Berliet, Chaimite e UMM – Os Grandes Veículos Militares Nacionais, Contra a Corrente, Lda., Lisboa 2018. (in Portuguese)
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- Richard Lathrop, John McDonald and Jim Laurier, Cadillac Cage V-100 Commando 1960-71, New Vanguard series 52, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2002.
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External links
Notes and References
- Katz, Russel, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon (1985), pp. 44-45, Plate G3.
- Web site: The Weapons: Semi-auto Pistols . lebaneseforces.com . 12 March 2015 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114327/http://www.lebaneseforces.com/wsemiauto.asp . 2 April 2015 .
- Walter, Walther Pistols – PP, PPK and P 38 (2022), p. 71.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 47, Plate H3.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate D3.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 46, Plate H1.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate B2.
- Web site: 2016-03-03 . Lebanese Forces : The Weapons: Sub Machine Guns (SMG) . 2022-11-23 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174221/http://www.lebaneseforces.com/wsmg.asp . bot: unknown .
- McNab, Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II: PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS (2014), p. 68.
- Web site: Sa. 23. Maxim. Popenker. Modern Firearms. 27 October 2010.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 45.
- Micheletti and Debay, Liban – dix jours aux cœur des combats, RAIDS magazine (1989), p. 30.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate B1.
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- Web site: MAS-1949 and 49/56. 28 October 2010.
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- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 39.
- Huon, Un Siècle d'Armement Mondial: Armes à feu d'infanterie de petit calibre, tome 4 (1981), page unknown.
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- Katz, Russel, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon (1985), p. 16.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), p. 48; Plate B3.
- Rottman, The AK-47 Kalashnikov-series assault rifles (2011), p. 78.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army through the eyes of a lens, 1975–1991 (2019), p. 19.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 46, Plate G5.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate B4.
- Jenzen-Jones & Spleeters, Identifying & Tracing the FN Herstal FAL Rifle: Documenting signs of diversion in Syria and beyond (2015), pp. 20-21.
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- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-8.
- Laffin, The War of Desperation: Lebanon 1982-85 (1985), p. 40.
- Katz, Russel, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon (1985), pp. 40-41, Plate D2.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 46, Plate H2.
- McNab, 20th Century Military Uniforms (2002), p. 174.
- Katz, Russel, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon (1985), p. 44, Plate G2.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 46, Plate G3.
- Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 106.
- Thompson, The G3 Battle Rifle (2019), pp. 29; 64.
- Book: Jenzen-Jones, N.R.. Global Development and Production of Self-loading Service Rifles: 1896 to the Present. resrep10728. January 2017. 978-2-940548-34-7 . Small Arms Survey. https://web.archive.org/web/20170629213337/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/F-Working-papers/SAS-WP25-Self-loading-rifles.pdf. dead. June 29, 2017. Working Paper 25.
- Katz, Russel, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon (1985), p. 40, Plate D1.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), p. 7; Appendix A, table A-8.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-3; A-8.
- Kassis, Invasion of Lebanon 1982 (2019), p. 355.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-3.
- Russell, Katz, and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon 1982–84 (1985), p. 43.
- Micheletti and Debay, Liban – dix jours aux cœur des combats, RAIDS magazine (1989), p. 35.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate C3.
- McNab, The SVD Dragunov Rifle (2023), p. 50.
- Web site: 2016-03-03 . Lebanese Forces : The Weapons: Standard Sniper Rifles . 2022-12-07 . 2016-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160317113554/http://www.lebaneseforces.com/wstandardsniper.asp . bot: unknown .
- El-Assad, Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks (2008), p. 103.
- Kassis, Invasion of Lebanon 1982 (2019), p. 199.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate A2.
- Laffin, The War of Desperation: Lebanon 1982-85 (1985), pp. 179–183.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 22.
- Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 2 (1988), p. 47, Plate H4.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 43.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 29.
- Neville, Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces (2018), p. 15.
- El-Assad, Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks (2008), p. 117.
- Naud, La Guerre Civile Libanaise - 2e partie: Les combats israélo-Syriens au Liban, 1982, p. 15.
- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), p. 209.
- Neville, Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces (2018), p. 9.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army through the eyes of a lens, 1975–1991 (2019), pp. 22-23.
- Web site: Stickgrenade, Type67. 2020-04-11. 2013-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20130623080446/http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/middleeastasia/china/stickgrenadetype67.html. dead.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Introduction, p. 1.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 41.
- Willey, Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War in Lebanon (2016), p. 7.
- Willey, Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War in Lebanon (2016), p. 9.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 26.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 16.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 4.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-11.
- Rottman, The Rocket-propelled Grenade (2010), p. 63.
- Web site: RPG-2. SALW Guide.
- Naud, La Guerre Civile Libanaise - 2e partie: Les combats israélo-Syriens au Liban, 1982, p. 10.
- Zaloga, Tank battles of the Mid-East Wars (2) (2003), p. 63.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 35.
- Henson, Jason W."MGM-32 Entac ATGM." "Harpoon Head Quarters". Retrieved: 24 December 2009.
- Cooper & Santana, Lebanese Civil War Volume 1: Palestinian diaspora, Syrian and Israeli interventions, 1970-1978 (2019), p. 34.
- Katz, Battleground Lebanon (1990), Plate B3.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 36.
- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), pp. 66-67.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), pp. 15; 35.
- Rottman, US Grenade Launchers – M79, M203, and M320 (2017), p. 37.
- Rottman, US Grenade Launchers – M79, M203, and M320 (2017), p. 22.
- Kassis, Invasion of Lebanon 1982 (2019), p. 194.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-9; Appendix D, D-6.
- Kassis, Invasion of Lebanon 1982 (2019), p. 230.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 58.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 31.
- https://milinme.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/toyota-land-cruiser-in-lebanon-cluster-1-militias/ A Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40/42 of the AMAL militia in 1984 armed with a Chinese made Type 56 75 mm recoilless rifle.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-9.
- Zaloga, Tank battles of the Mid-East Wars (2) (2003), p. 25.
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- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), p. 26.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), pp. 41-43.
- Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 82.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 98.
- Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-6.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army Through the Eyes of a Lens, 1975–1991 (2019), p. 95.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 22.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army through the eyes of a lens, 1975–1991 (2019), pp. 76-77; 80.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 65.
- Mahé, La Guerre Civile Libanaise, un chaos indescriptible! (1975-1990), p. 81.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army through the eyes of a lens, 1975–1991 (2019), pp. 78-79.
- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), pp. 210-211.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 56.
- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), p. 75.
- Zaloga, Tank battles of the Mid-East Wars (2) (2003), p. 66.
- Abi-Chahine, The People's Liberation Army through the eyes of a lens, 1975–1991 (2019), p. 81.
- Guest, Lebanon (1994), p. 106.
- Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 37.
- Kassis, Invasion of Lebanon 1982 (2019), p. 196.
- Micheletti and Debay, Liban – dix jours aux cœur des combats, RAIDS magazine (1989), p. 9.
- Cooper & Sandler, Lebanese Civil War Volume 2: Quiet before the Storm, 1978-1981 (2021), p. 16; Plate i.
- Sex & Abi-Chahine, Modern Conflicts 2 – The Lebanese Civil War, from 1975 to 1991 and Beyond (2021), p. 211.
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- http://www.warwheels.net/Model_M35A2wBoforsASSAD.html - 1/35 scale model photos of a Lebanese Special Forces AA QF Bofors 40 mm gun mounted on a M35A2 Gun Truck.
- http://osw.zone/paint-weathering-diorama/vallejo-colors/135-btr-152-apc-armed-with-bofors-40-mm-gunnlp-tigers-militialebanon1976-by/ - 1/35 scale model photos of a Lebanese Tigers Militia AA QF Bofors 40 mm gun mounted on a BTR-152 APC, c.1976.
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