The idea was first tested by the Soviet Union as Project 183R which, in August 1957, produced the Komar-class which mounted two P-15 Termit missiles in box-launchers on a 25 m hull backed with a twin 25 mm gun.
However by the time they arrived the Paykan had already been sunk, after being hit by two Iraqi P-15 Termit missiles.
The Komar class missile boat for example being designed and operated around the calculations that it would take 12 P-15 Termit missiles to destroy a single NATO destroyer.
Due to delays in the missile development, the missile was substituted with the short range P-70 Ametist (SS-N-7 Starbright) submerged launch missile which itself was a development of the P-15 Termit (SS-N-2 Styx) surface-launched missile.
Additionally, he handed over a great deal of classified information gathered by the CIA on a clandestine operation, code-named HA/BRINK, that had focused on the acquisition of examples of Soviet military hardware sold to the Indonesians during the Sukarno era, including an SA-2 guidance system, designs for the Whiskey class submarine, the Riga class frigate, the Sverdlov class cruiser, the P-15 Termit anti-ship missile and the Tu-16 Badger bomber.