IDF vs. Hezbollah guerilla (08/2006)

[Marcello]

"Shot and Tiran leftovers"

AFAIK The T-55s went out of service in the 80's. Assuming that some are still available in the depots they would be used only for conversions. The Centurions too are out of service by now, not even in the reserve anymore, again conversion fodder for heavy APCs. I would guess that maybe some reserve unit still has some M48/60s with only ERA but any unit that is actually going to see the frontline would be equipped with heavily upgraded M48/60s as a minimum, or some model of Merkava.
The Kornet scare was just that, bull****. They seemingly had a bit of everything, from Sagger to TOWs (courtesy of the lebanese regular army I would suspect). Then Fagot/Spandrel, iranian tandem warhead RPGs and stuff like that. Definitively they were not awash in Kornets.