The UAE and Qatari fighters don’t have air refueling capabilities which means that they may operate with some restrictions and their participation is more symbolic and political.

Totally insane! How can those pilots (or even ground troops) open fire on protesters?
I hope one of the jets actually targets the Gaddafi compound and put an end to this horror.

The Lebanese Air Force also has the 208B Grand Caravan in service, identical to the one’s used by Iraq, armed with Hellfire missiles.
There’s currently one and another is expected to be delivered later this year and a third next year.

Here’s a photo I took last week:

Jordan is also another operator of the type.

In 1982, the Syrians thought that they were still fighting like the 1967 and 1973 wars, where numbers did effect on the balance of powers which meant that equal number of fighters meant that they will get a good kill ratio while themselves suffering losses as well. But they didn’t realize that the IDAF had become far superior with the new F-15s and F-16s and all the data being fed by AWACS.
I think war dependent on numbers was coming to its end.

Some have seen this, you can find some Lebanese Hunter photos from November 2008 here:

http://www.lebaneseairforce.info/hunterphotos1.htm

During several conflicts, the Lebanese Hunters have been armed with the Matra 68 mm rocket pods and Mk 82 bombs. They’ve also made good use of the 30 mm cannons.
As far as I know, other stores are not being considered at the time being and this will probably remain the standard armament.

Lebanon currently owns 8 Hunters out of the 19 that were recieved in the 3 batches from 1959 to 1975. Out of these 8, the air force refurbished 5 as follows:

1 T.66 twin seater
1 FGA 70 (early F.9)
3 FGA 70A (F.9)

Out of these 5, the twin seater and the 3 FGA 70As are flying. The other FGA 70 is said to be airworthy but it has never flown yet.

As for combat, the army has not been engaged in any battles since the Hunters were brought back into service. So for the time being, they only do routine training sorties.

Last July, they did cause some panic in Beirut but most fans that I know actually enjoyed as they were chasing one another for almost 30 minutes.
One guy told me that they were so crazy that he thought one may crash 🙂
Read this article here:
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090730/FOREIGN/707299826/1002

I’ve made many photos, please check airliners.net
I’ve posted many more here as well.

I’m no expert in these but those engines don’t appear too stealthy to me. Shouldn’t they be a little bit “hidden” or is it not related?