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During the 2006 Lebanon War, it was initially reported that Hezbollah guerillas fired a Silkworm missile at an Israeli warship off the shores of Lebanon.

Israeli sources later said that the missile used instead was a more sophisticated Chinese C-701.

Notably, Syria and Egypt employed Soviet Styx missiles — the Russian-made precursors to the Silkworm — against Israeli warships in both the 1967 War of Attrition following the Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

While the missiles were ineffective during the Battle of Latakia in 1973, four Styx missiles sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in October 1967, marking the first time that ship-to-ship missiles were successfully used in combat.