page_title: Weapons of the Lebanese Civil War
section_title: General-purpose machine guns
hierarchical_section_title: Weapons of the Lebanese Civil War / Weapons and equipment / General-purpose machine guns
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Kulsprutegevär m/1934.
context_page_description: The Lebanese Civil War was a multi-sided military conflict that pitted a variety of local irregular militias, both Muslim and Christian, against each other between 1975 and 1990.
  A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies and factions operating in the Lebanese Civil War. Combatants included:
  the leftist-Muslim militias of the Lebanese National Movement coalition;
  the rightist-Christian militias of the Lebanese Front coalition;
  the Muslim Lebanese Arab Army, dissident faction of the Lebanese Army;
  the Christian Army of Free Lebanon, dissident faction of the Lebanese Army;
  the Christian Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia;
  the Christian Lebanese Forces militia, successor of the Lebanese Front;
  the Christian Lebanese Forces – Executive Command militia, dissident faction of the LF;
  the Christian Al-Tanzim militia;
  the Christian Guardians of the Cedars militia;
  the Christian Tigers Militia militia;
  the Christian Zgharta Liberation Army militia;
  the Shia Muslim Amal Movement militia;
  the Shia Muslim Hezbollah guerrilla group;
  the Sunni Muslim Islamic Unification Movement militia;
  the Sunni Muslim Independent Nasserite Movement's Al-Mourabitoun militia;
context_section_description: MG 34
  MG 42
  Rheinmetall MG 3
  PK/PKM
  Type 80 (Chinese-produced version of the PK/PKM)
  Zastava M84 (Yugoslav-produced version of the PK/PKM)
  VZ 59
  Type 67
  AA-52 (mainly mounted on AML armoured cars and VAB APCs)
  FN MAG
  M60
caption: MG 34 machine gun
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