List of military equipment of Hezbollah
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This is a list of some of the military equipment used by the paramilitary wing of Hezbollah.
Anti aircraft defense
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZU-23-2 | Anti-aircraft gun | Unknown | ||||
| AZP S-60 | Anti-aircraft gun (towed) | >2+ | ||||
| ZSU-23-4 | Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon | Unknown | ||||
| 9K32 strela-2 | Man portable surface to air missile | Unknown | Various | Probable stockpile |
Anti ship defense
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-701 | Anti-ship missile | Unknown | ||||
| C-802 | Anti-ship missile | 8+ | In 2006, Hezbollah fire a single C-802 at the Israeli ship (INS Hanit), killing 4 sailors.[1] | |||
| Yakhont (P-800 Oniks) | Anti-ship missile | Potentially; Up to 12 | Delivered 2013[2][3] | |||
Anti tank defense
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPG-7 | Rocket-propelled grenade | Unknown | Various | Including Iranian produced clones[4] | ||
| RPG-29 | Rocket propelled-grenade | Unknown | [5][6] | |||
| RPG-30 | Rocket propelled-grenade | Unknown | Possession unconfirmed[7][8] | |||
| Panzerfaust 3 | Anti-tank rocket launcher | Extremely limited (if so) | Unknown | Unconfirmed[9] | ||
| Saegre 2 | Anti-tank guided missile | Unknown | Iranian M47 Dragon clone[10] | |||
| Raad (clone) | Anti-tank guided missile | Unknown | Iranian 9M14 Malyutka clone[11] | |||
| 9M14 Malyutka | Anti-tank guided missile | 500+ | [12] | |||
| 9K111 Fagot | Anti-tank guided missile | 50+ | [13] | |||
| 9M113 Konkurs | Anti-tank guided missile | 50+ | [14][15] | |||
| 9K115-2 Metis-M | Anti-tank guided missile | 50+ | [16][17] | |||
| Towsan-1 (clone) | Anti-tank guided missile | Unknown | Iranian Konkurs clone | |||
| 9M133 Kornet | Anti-tank guided missile | 50+ | [18][19] | |||
| BGM-71 TOW | Anti-tank guided missile | 10+ | Unknown | Possibly via Iran or captured[20] | ||
| Toophan (Series) (clone) | Anti-tank guided missile | Unknown | Iranian TOW clone | |||
| MILAN | Anti-tank guided missile | Unknown | [21] | |||
| M40 | Recoilless rifle | >1+ (extremely underestimated) | Unknown | 30,000 rounds of ammunition in 2008 |
Hezbollah has apparently thousands of anti-tank guided missiles in total.[22] The group has received many unreported weapon shipments from both Iran and Syria.
Firearms
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assault rifles and carbines | ||||||
| AK-47[23] | Assault rifle | Unknown | Various | Commonly used | ||
| AKM | Assault rifle | Unknown | Various | Commonly used | ||
| AK-74 | Assault rifle | Unknown | Various | Commonly used, including the M variants. | ||
| M16 rifle[24] | Selective fire assault rifle. Single and three shot burst. | Unknown | Some likely captured from the Syrian opposition or Islamic State | |||
| M4 carbine | Carbine | Unknown | Unknown | Used by Hezbollah Special Forces | ||
| Sniper rifles | ||||||
| SKS[25] | Designated marksman rifle/Sniper rifle | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| Dragunov sniper rifle[26] | Designated marksman rifle | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| Orsis T-5000[27] | Sniper rifle | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| Machine guns | ||||||
| PK machine gun | General-purpose machine gun | Unknown | Various | Commonly used | ||
| FN MAG | General-purpose machine gun | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| M240 | General-purpose machine gun | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| M1919 Browning machine gun[28] | Medium machine gun | Unknown | Unknown | |||
Land vehicles
This category includes tanks, armoured personnel carriers (APC)s, infantry fighting vehicles (IFV)s and other land vehicles.
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-55 | Main battle tank | Unknown | South Lebanon Army |
Some captured from SLA | ||
| T-62 | Main battle tank | Unknown | Operating in Syria | |||
| T-72 | Main battle tank | >60, 1+ T72-AV variant[29] | Operating in Syria | |||
| T-90 | Main battle tank | Unknown | Operating in Syria | |||
| BMP-1 | Infantry fighting vehicle | Unknown | Operating in Syria | |||
| M113 | Armoured personnel carrier | At least 3 | Disputed, likely from: South Lebanon Army[30] | Captured in year 2000 | ||
| BTR-152 | Armoured personnel carrier | Unknown | South Lebanon Army | Some captured from SLA | ||
| BTR-50 | Armoured personnel carrier | Unknown | South Lebanon Army | Some captured from SLA | ||
| BRDM-2 | Armoured scout car | Unknown | South Lebanon Army | Some captured from SLA | ||
| 2S1 Gvozdika | Self-propelled howitzer | >3+ | Operating in Syria | |||
| Safir | Military light utility vehicle | "dozens" | 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 | |
Rockets and ballistic missiles
| Name/Model | Diameter | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Range | Warhead | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type 63 | 107mm | "dozens" | 8 km | Includes Iranian Fadjr-1 clones[31] | ||||
| BM-21 Grad | 122mm | Unknown | 40 km | 21 kg | Katyushas from Iran, Russia and China.[32] | |||
| BM-27 Uragan | 220mm | Unknown | 40 km | 100 kg | ||||
| Fajr-3 | 240mm | >100+ | 43 km | 45 kg | Acquired from Iran pre-2006[33] | |||
| Falaq-1[34] | 240mm | Unknown | 10 km | 50 kg | ||||
| Khaibar-1 | 302mm | Unknown | Unknown | 100 km | 175 kg | Apparent cluster munition.[35] | ||
| Falaq-2[36] | 303mm | Unknown | 11 km | 120 kg | ||||
| Fajr-5[37] | 333mm | Unknown | 75 km | 90 kg | ||||
| Naze'at | 356mm | Unknown | 130 km | |||||
| Zelzal-1 | Unknown | Unknown | 160 km | |||||
| Zelzal-2 | 610mm | Around 500[38] | 250 km | 600 kg | Apparently based on the Soviet FROG-7 missile | |||
| Fateh-110 | 610mm | 40-700 | 250 km | 650 kg | [39] | |||
| Scud | N/A | 500 km | 800 kg | |||||
Unmanned aerial vehicles
The group claims to build their own unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is disputed, but in any case the designs are copies of Iranian models.[40][41]
| Name | Type | Quantity | Acquired from | Origin | Photo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohajer-4 | Unmanned aerial vehicle | Unknown | ||||
| Ababil-2 | Unmanned aerial vehicle | >12 | 2 or 3 apparently shot down by Israel in 2006. | |||
| Ababil-3 | Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle | Unknown | ||||
| Yasir (clone) | Unmanned aerial vehicle | Unknown | Iranian ScanEagle clone[42] | |||
| Hud Hud II | Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle | Unknown | Iranian manufactured UAV announced in Hezbollah's arsenal in 6/17/2024 | |||
| fpv drone | FPV | hundreds | Iran | Iran | Mainly fiber optic drones used extensively by hezbollah in 2026 against israeli targets |
See also
- Lebanese Ground Forces Equipment
- Lebanese Armed Forces Out of Service Equipment
- Lebanese Civil War
- Lebanese Air Force aircraft inventory
- List of military equipment of Islamic State
- List of military equipment used by Syrian Democratic Forces
- List of military equipment used by Syrian opposition forces
- List of equipment of the Yemeni Army
- Syrian intervention in Lebanon
- Weapons of the Lebanese Civil War
- 1958 Lebanon crisis
- 1982 Lebanon War