[Publius6961]

Phalanx. If they are telling the truth, that's what they'd see from their perspective if a Phalanx was shooting at a sea-skimmer.

If you're dumb enough to accept that anyone could or would mount phalanx on a barge... yeah.

[Southack]

Could be a translation issue. You've got a Syrian reporter talking to Egyptian sailors in Lebanon, going into an English news report.

"Barge" may not be the most accurate version of their story.