Guardians of the Cedars
This enabled the quick expansion of the KRF armoured corps to brigade strength, further augmented by a consignment of twenty ex-Israeli M50 Super Sherman medium tanks (one M50 tank was later lent to the allied Guardians of the Cedars militia, leaving the KRF with a total of 19 Shermans) and M3/M9 Zahlam half-tracks, later joined by two M41 light tanks captured from the Lebanese Arab Army in July 1976, plus a number of BTR-152 APCs captured from the Syrians or supplied by Israel.