by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 3, 2010 | Security
An amazing find from Rami at +961: Believe it or not, I just found out that Haigazian university and the Lebanese army have cooperated back in the 1960?s to produce a series of surface-to-surface missiles called “Arz-1?, “Arz-2?, and “Arz-3?. It all started with a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 10, 2010 | Society
It seems we’ve had enough of our “Lebanese foods” (hummous, tabbouleh, kebbe) and we’ve decided to super-size the Lebanese flag: The Lebanese military on Sunday released a picture taken from the air of the massive flag, stitched in Kuwait,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 28, 2010 | Security
Despite the hoo-haa from the US on the use of arms against Israel, the UAE government is continuing with its pledge to improve the Lebanese Army’s capabilities (albeit hand-me-downs) and are not worried who the weapons are used against: Last week, the UAE...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 26, 2010 | Security
In what I thought was a mundane article from UPI titled U.S. ‘to give Lebanon light attack planes’ it actually had some interesting, yet disturbing news towards the end: …the U.S. security consultancy Stratfor says the Pentagon wants to establish [a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 17, 2009 | Security
The 10 MiGs promised by Russia may hit the Lebanese skies very soon: Russian military group of experts will be visiting Lebanon in the next few days, on a mission that consists of exploring the capabilities of Lebanese airports to maintain the MiGs. Days later,...
