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Military equipment of the population

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This is a list of some of the military equipment used by the paramilitary wing of Hezbollah.

Small arms

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Assault and battle rifles

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Name Type Quantity Acquired from Origin Photo 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 rifle. Single and three shot burst. Limited/Rare  Israel
 Iraq
 Lebanon
 United States Some likely captured from the Syrian opposition or Islamic State
M4 carbine Carbine rifle Limited/Rare Unknown  United States Used by Hezbollah Special Forces
  1. ^ Saramifar, Younes (1 March 2018). "Enchanted by the AK-47: Contingency of body and the weapon among Hezbollah militants". Journal of Material Culture. 23 (1): 83–99. doi:10.1177/1359183517725099. ISSN 1359-1835.
  2. ^ "Nonstate Threats". www.au.af.mil. Archived from the original on 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2017-09-14.