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List of military equipment of Hezbollah

This is a list of some of the military equipment used by the paramilitary wing of Hezbollah.

Small arms edit

Assault and battle rifles edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
AK-47[1] Assault rifle Unknown Various   Soviet Union   Commonly used
AKM Assault rifle Unknown Various   Soviet Union (various)   Commonly used
AK-74 Assault rifle Unknown Various   Soviet Union   Commonly used, including the M variants.
M16 rifle[2] Selective fire assault rifle. Single and three shot burst. Unknown   Islamic State
  FSA
  Lebanon 		  United States   Some likely captured from the Syrian opposition or Islamic State
M4 carbine Carbine Unknown Unknown   United States   Used by Hezbollah Special Forces

Sniper rifles edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
SKS[3] Designated marksman rifle/Sniper rifle Unknown Unknown   Soviet Union  
Dragunov sniper rifle[4] Designated marksman rifle Unknown Unknown   Soviet Union  
Orsis T-5000[5] Sniper rifle Unknown Unknown   Russia  

Machine guns edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
PK machine gun General-purpose machine gun Unknown Various   Soviet Union   Commonly used
FN MAG General-purpose machine gun Unknown Unknown   Belgium  
M240 General-purpose machine gun Unknown Unknown   Belgium
  United States 		 
M1919 Browning machine gun[6] Medium machine gun Unknown Unknown   United States  

Heavy weapons and missiles edit

Anti-tank edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
RPG-7 Rocket-propelled grenade Unknown Various   Soviet Union   Including Iranian produced clones[7]
RPG-29 Rocket propelled-grenade Unknown   Syria   Soviet Union   [8][9]
RPG-30 Rocket propelled-grenade Unknown   Syria
  Russia 		  Russia   Possession unconfirmed[10][11]
Panzerfaust 3 Anti-tank rocket launcher Extremely limited (if so) Unknown   West Germany   Unconfirmed[12]
Saegre 2 Anti-tank guided missile Unknown   Iran   Iran   Iranian M47 Dragon clone[13]
Raad (clone) Anti-tank guided missile Unknown   Iran   Iran   Iranian 9M14 Malyutka clone[14]
9M14 Malyutka Anti-tank guided missile 500+   Iran   Soviet Union   [15]
9K111 Fagot Anti-tank guided missile 50+   Syria   Soviet Union   [16]
9M113 Konkurs Anti-tank guided missile 50+   Syria
  Iran 		  Soviet Union   [17][18]
9K115-2 Metis-M Anti-tank guided missile 50+   Syria   Soviet Union   [19][20]
Towsan-1 (clone) Anti-tank guided missile Unknown   Iran   Iran Iranian Konkurs clone
9M133 Kornet Anti-tank guided missile 50+   Syria   Russia   [21][22]
BGM-71 TOW Anti-tank guided missile 10+ Unknown   USA   Possibly via Iran or captured[23]
Toophan (Series) (clone) Anti-tank guided missile Unknown   Iran   Iran   Iranian TOW clone
MILAN Anti-tank guided missile Unknown   Syria   France   [24]
M40 Recoilless rifle >1+ (extremely underestimated) Unknown   USA   30,000 rounds of ammunition in 2008

Hezbollah has apparently thousands of anti-tank guided missiles in total.[25] The group has received many unreported weapon shipments from both Iran and Syria.

Anti-aircraft edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
ZU-23-2 Anti-aircraft gun Unknown   Lebanon
  Syria
  Iran 		  Soviet Union  
AZP S-60 Anti-aircraft gun (towed) >2+   Lebanon   Soviet Union  
ZSU-23-4 Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon Unknown   Syria   Soviet Union  

Rockets, missiles and launchers edit

Name/Model Diameter Quantity Acquired from Origin Range Warhead Photo Notes
Type 63 107mm "dozens"   Iran
  Iraq 		  China 8 km   Includes Iranian Fadjr-1 clones[26]
BM-21 Grad 122mm Unknown   Russia
  China
  Iran

  Soviet Union

40 km 21 kg   Katyushas from Iran, Russia and China.[27]
BM-27 Uragan 220mm Unknown   Syria   Soviet Union 40 km 100 kg  
Fajr-3 240mm >100+   Iran   Iran 43 km 45 kg   Acquired from Iran pre-2006[28]
Falaq-1[29] 240mm Unknown   Iran   Iran 10 km 50 kg  
Khaibar-1 302mm Unknown Unknown   Syria 100 km 175 kg Apparent cluster munition.[30]
Falaq-2[31] 303mm Unknown   Iran   Iran 11 km 120 kg  
Fajr-5[32] 333mm Unknown   Iran (likely)   Iran 75 km 90 kg  
Naze'at 356mm Unknown   Iran   Iran 130 km  
Zelzal-1 Unknown Unknown   Iran   Iran 160 km  
Zelzal-2 610mm Around 500[33]   Iran   Iran 250 km 600 kg   Apparently based on the Soviet FROG-7 missile
Fateh-110 610mm 40-700   Syria   Iran 250 km 650 kg   [34]
Scud 500 km 800 kg  

Anti-ship

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
C-701 Anti-ship missile Unknown   Iran   China  
C-802 Anti-ship missile 8+   Iran   China   In 2006, Hezbollah fire a single C-802 at the Israeli ship (INS Hanit), killing 4 sailors.[35]
Yakhont (P-800 Oniks) Anti-ship missile Potentially; Up to 12   Syria   Russia
  Soviet Union 		  Delivered 2013[36][37]

Vehicles edit

Tanks, armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and misc edit

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
T-55 Main battle tank Unknown   Syria
South Lebanon Army 		  Soviet Union   Some captured from SLA
T-62 Main battle tank Unknown   Syria   Soviet Union   Operating in Syria
T-72 Main battle tank >60, 1+ T72-AV variant[38]   Syria   Soviet Union   Operating in Syria
T-90 Main battle tank Unknown   Syria   Russia   Operating in Syria
BMP-1 Infantry fighting vehicle Unknown   Syria   Soviet Union   Operating in Syria
M113 Armoured personnel carrier At least 3 Disputed, likely from: South Lebanon Army[39]   USA   Captured in year 2000
BTR-152 Armoured personnel carrier Unknown South Lebanon Army   Soviet Union   Some captured from SLA
BTR-50 Armoured personnel carrier Unknown South Lebanon Army   Soviet Union   Some captured from SLA
BRDM-2 Armoured scout car Unknown South Lebanon Army   Soviet Union   Some captured from SLA
2S1 Gvozdika Self-propelled howitzer >3+   Syria   Soviet Union   Operating in Syria
Safir Military light utility vehicle "dozens"   Iran   Iran   Operating in Syria
Technicals Improvised fighting vehicle 100-1000s+ Various Various   Used widely, some captured from the Syrian opposition and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Civilian and transport vehicles Mercedes, Volvo, Range Rover, Isuzu, Toyota, Hyundai and Kia etc. 100-1000s+ Various Various Used widely

Unmanned aerial vehicles[40]

The group claims to build their own unmanned aerial vehicles, which is disputed, but in any case the designs are copies of Iranian models.[41]

Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo Notes
Mohajer-4 Unmanned aerial vehicle 8+   Iran   Iran  
Ababil-2 Unmanned aerial vehicle >12   Iran   Iran   2 or 3 apparently shot down by Israel in 2006.
Ababil-3 Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle Unknown   Iran   Iran  
Yasir (clone) Unmanned aerial vehicle Unknown   Iran   Iran   Iranian ScanEagle clone[42]

See also edit

References edit

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