The Nahr el Bared battle is over before the Hunters made an appearance.

I said earlier, the ejection seat cartridges were missing as mentioned in this article.

The LAF official said commanders have also decided to bring five Hawker Hunter jets back into service after a decade’s retirement — if needed parts can be found. Sources said the main need is for ejector-seat parts.

Here is the link:
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3000788&C=mideast

There are still no Hunters over the Lebanese skies.

However, I finally found this URL in English of snippets from the local press (August 20).

In As-Saffir daily here are two small paragraphs (2nd and last):

Nahr al-Bared: The army is preparing to introduce Hawker Hunter [fighters] in the [military] settlement operation.

The army is rumored to prepare for launching four Hawker Hunter fighters [into the battle].

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=10433

The last I heard from a retired pilot was that they were still waiting for the ejection seat cartidges (?) to be delivered.

And here’s a short clip from Al-Jazeera TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9vnhd7N__g

They must have done some modifications/adaptations for these helicopters to carry the 250 kg bombs. The 454 kg bombs are a bit harder to believe.

The bombs must be coming from left over stocks they had for the now retired Hawker Hunters.

Yes, some helicopters like the Mi-24 drop bombs regularly while flying (they have an aiming sytem).

I doubt the Lebanese helicopters have bombing sights. They must be dropping the bombs while hovering at a certain altitude (and exposing themselves to anti-air fire) or they are just dropping them whitout proper aim while flying at a certain speed.

Many thanks for all the replies.

There’s almost no anti-air fire coming out of the camp now. Most of the militants are inside fortified bunkers. So the chopper is aiming while hovering over the target.
The 500 kg is indeed hard to believe and I don’t know how effective the 250 kg bombs were at this time.