MD530Gs for Lebanon

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) will receive six MD530G attack helicopters as part of a $120m arms package from the United States, the US also supplying the LAF with six more ScanEagle UAVs together with communications and equipment and computers valued at a total of $11m. According to US sources, “This equipment will help the army build on its capability to conduct border-security and counter-terrorism operations and, importantly to defend the country and the people of Lebanon.”