You know, about those MIG29, ... why don't you take a few helicopters instead?

"Give me something, anything ..."

AP/ here

Russia has agreed to provide Lebanon with an unspecified number of helicopter gunships instead of MiG-29 fighter jets, the Lebanese president's office said.....

Suleiman's office said in a statement released late Friday that Russia agreed to provide Lebanon with Mi-24 helicopters instead of the 10 MIG-29 fighters originally planned... a possible counterweight to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which has been increasing its power behind an arsenal of rockets that threaten another U.S. ally _ Israel...."