Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O le aofaʻi o 60 AMX-VCI na tuʻuina atu i le Lebanese Army i le 1971-72, ma le isi 30 taʻavale na lipotia mai na tuʻuina atu ia Me 1983. O le tele o VCIs na faoa e le Amal Movement militia ma le pro-Iseraeli South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia ia Fepuari 1984 ina ua maeʻa le faatoilaloina o le au fitafita a le malo o Lepanona e Shia Muslim ma Druze militia i le taimi o le
Taua i le Mauga. O taʻavale na puʻeina na vave ona faʻamalosia e le SLA, lea na faʻaaogaina i latou seʻia oʻo i le paʻu o le militia i le maeʻa ai o le faʻateʻaina o Isaraelu ia Aperila 2000; o i latou na faʻaaogaina e Amal na toe faʻafoʻi atu i le Lebanese Army i le amataga o Oketopa 1990. O VCIs na faʻaauupegaina i US M40 106mm recoilless rifles na mulimuli ane faʻafaigaluegaina e le Lebanese Army General Michel Aoun's loyalist troops i le taimi o le Elimination War faasaga i ona tagata tauva Kerisiano o le Lebanese Forces (LF) militia i East Beirut ia Fepuari 1990, o ia foi na mafai ona puʻeina nisi VCIs mai le Army barracks.