use of missile boats was an attack by two Egyptian Soviet-built Komar-class boats on the Israeli destroyer ''Eilat'' on 20 October 1967, several months after the Six-Day War. The two boats launched a total of four P-15 missiles, three of which struck the Eilat and sank her with the loss of 47 crew dead or missing and over 90 wounded.

The Soviet FACs prompted a NATO response, which became more intense after the sinking of Eilat.