A patrol boat in the Indo-Pakistani War fired an SS-N-2 Styx at a shore target in Karachi. The episode is described as a first anti-land bombardment use of the weapon. The Styx was designed and normally understood as an anti-ship missile, so this employment shows an available weapon being pressed outside its usual target set. The wartime example leads directly into the wider discussion of missiles taking on secondary roles.
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A Styx missile strike on a Karachi shore target
During the Indo-Pakistani War, a patrol boat fired an SS-N-2 Styx at a shore target in Karachi, pressing an anti-ship missile into land bombardment.