[Klutz Dohanger]

obviously, he knows nothing about anti-ship missiles.

Beyond the obvious that he missed, like terminal homing maneuvers, dog-legs, etc, he also obviously doesn't know that AS missiles are designed to NOT detonate at impact, but several seconds later, after they've penetrated the hull, and explode INSIDE the ship.

I remember one harpoon vs target shoot onboard the USS Harold E. Holt, we weren't the firing ship, just the observers, but the target ship had been gutted, and was basically just a steel shell. The harpoon went through the ship, about 10 ft above the waterline, and exploded about 100yds, on the OTHER SIDE.

All that precious decoy would have done, is ensure that the warhead would have exploded closer to the real target.

[Renfield]

"...I remember one harpoon vs target shoot onboard the USS Harold E. Holt, we weren't the firing ship, just the observers, but the target ship had been gutted, and was basically just a steel shell. The harpoon went through the ship, about 10 ft above the waterline, and exploded about 100yds, on the OTHER SIDE.

All that precious decoy would have done, is ensure that the warhead would have exploded closer to the real target...."

Ever thought about 2 vertical planar surfaces, one on each pontoon of the catamaran?

[Doohickey]

Several milliseconds, actually. After several seconds it would be in the next time zone.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"They" (the media) are calling this a drone, not a missile. Active control then, from some remote site, with a person (not an automatic sensor terminal guidance radar or an "designed-in-place" anti-ship capability like Exocet or Harpoon or Styx missile. Simple binoculars amybe?

Remote control helps of course, but it implies that there (most likely) was no active emissions or terminal guidance (other than remotely from the person a the screen, or from a nearby small craft.) So Israelie warning would be reduced.

Drone also implies that the "missile" was a make-shift, put-together assault using some smaller, lower=speed missile. Our military drones, for example, carry much less payload than our attack missiles. More important when thinking about damage, the drones fly very, very slow compared to attack missiles. And speed and leftover fuel (at impact) destroys ships, as much, if not more than, warhead capability. .

We don't know more. Yet.