I'm having trouble with this one...The C-802 isn't just some shoulder fired easily concealed system. It requires a Radar system for target aquisition and mobile launcher the size of a car carrier. I don't see them transporting, delivering, setting up, testing and training the system undetected. Also the damage from a "hit" from one of these would be devestating.
I believe the story to be false.
I'm with you. If a Silkworm missile with near half a ton of explosives for a warhead were to hit a corvette (less than 3,000 tonnes), the corvette would be an artificial reef in half an hour.
I'd agree with those comments..unless the Silkworm didn't make a DIRECT impact on the ship...maybe it struck the water at the stern..so that much of the blast was dissipated...the ship and crew were very lucky...there are lots of possibilities. It wouldn't be hard to smuggle the missile, dissassembled, and its Iranian crew into Lebanon..
Yep, I'm calling BS on DUMBKA as usual here. Silkworm is a simply enormous missle and even if the warhead didn't detonate, at that range the fuel explosion would have vaporized the SAAR.