If the Israelis intended to sink the Liberty, why were the attacking planes armed with 68mm antitank rockets, which are very feeble anti-ship weapons, rather than 1000 pound bombs which were a standard armament for the Mirage III and which would sink a ship in short order? The rocket armament is attested in official US Navy reports as well as eye-witness accounts from the survivors. The inappropriate weapons exactly support the Israeli version, which is that the planes were diverted on the spur of the moment in response to a garbled and erroneous report of an Egyptian ship off the coast.