This is definitely better than the Cessna 208 Caravan the Lebanese Army got from the US and the 70 Land Rovers from Britain.
“The king of the brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is offering this generous and appreciated aid of $3bn to the Lebanese army to strengthen its capabilities,” Mr Sleiman said in his address. Hopefully money will go to the right place and help the army fight terrorist groups and control the situation better.
He said it was the largest assistance provided in Lebanon’s history and would be used to buy weapons from France. [BBC]
Cessna Caravan donated by the US to the Lebanese Army
Oil Money To Help the Lebanese Army but from a different source
to buy weapons from France?
they have shitty weapons we should buy them from the US or Russia not from France
even Israel makes much better weapons than france
I would hardly call French weapons shitty. The FAMAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS) and their helicopters are among the top wepaons worldwide.
And no, I wouldn’t want to give those sneaky Russians any money no matter what the source of it was from.
the FAMAS has several design flaws and there helicopters don’t stand a chance against the American Apache or the Russian Kamov
If you calculate that an Apache costs $20M that means with $3B we could buy 150 Apaches and that would be awesome.
Exactly!
Buying weapons from France for 3bn deal is what Saudi Arabia wants as a thank you for its support in Syria unlike US which chickened out and Russia which is supporting the regime .Its all about politics. Stop nagging what ever helps our army is good
That’s great let’s hope they don’t pocket 2.9 billion like what usually happens. They should release public reports on every penny they spend so we know it’s going to the army and not the politicians pockets behind the army.
Then again even the reports could be fake so let’s just hope they get used for the betterment of the army
Hezbollah couldn’t be happier as recipients of this gift.
And we’re still silent on who’s stealing our rights
They’re going to use the money instead for خدمة الدين العام as they did before with the (I think) Qatari donation for Electricity.
We should get us several hundreds of leclerc tanks, some crotale missiles,eurocopter tiger, some uavs, antitank missiles, sniper rifles..
Instead of spending this money on useless weapons they could have used it for something that would help this country get out of the shit hole.
And on another note, el sleh be id el khara byejrah.