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

Assault and battle rifles


Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin	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


Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin
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

Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin	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

Anti-tank

Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin	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


Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin
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

Name/Model	Diameter	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin	Range	Warhead	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	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

Tanks, armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and misc

Name	Type	Quantity	Acquired from	Origin	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	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]

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