[Jeff Head]

From the data they acquired while tracking and attempting to defend against it. It's like a signature.

[yooling]

You're saying that each missle is unique in its flight characteristics and the Israeli navy reviewed the radar (I assume) log of the attack and pulled a missile "fingerprint" from that?

This looks like they need to pull back from shore aways, if radar picked this thing up and the onboard defense systems didn't kill it. Looks like it got on them pretty fast. A lesson learned.