U.S. Department of Defense announced the sale of a military aircraft to Lebanon. The plane is a trusty Cessna 208B Caravan, the “single-engined turboprop, fixed-tricycle landing gear, short-haul regional airliner and utility aircraft” that has cast fear into the heart of many a seagull over the beaches of Lebanon. Its gunmetal grey frame, silhouetted against […]

After receiving 15 units of the GIAT Caesar 155mm Self-propelled artillery system last month, the Lebanese army is set to receive 20 refurbished ex-French Army VBC-90 Armored vehicles sometime before October. The vehicles, purchased with part of the $3 Billion USD military aid from Saudi Arabia, will reduce the workload of the elderly M113 armored […]

A Saudi-funded $3 billion deal to provide Lebanon with French weapons was underway on Monday as the first shipment arrived at the Beirut International airport. The deal, signed last November, aims to bolster the Lebanese army’s fight against militants encroaching from neighboring Syria. Saudi Arabia has already provided $1 billion in military aid to the […]

Italy’s Iveco has signed an agreement to sell military and police armored vehicles LMV, MPV & VBTP to Lebanon. Italy’s Iveco has signed an agreement to sell 80 military and police vehicles to Lebanon, an Italian industrial source has said. The deal, worth around 30 million euros, was signed in mid-December and could be followed […]