crewdude48 wrote:SWM wrote:It's not clear exactly how much particle screening missiles have. There is no textev about it. It is plausible that they have some, but they don't need it quite as much as ships do.
I would say they probably do, but I wouldn't bet the bank on it.
In the scene where Mike was practicing using a single pod of Apollo Missiles as a fast recon drone, it was stated that they had scheaths over their sensors in order it prevent them from becoming degraded over long ballistic stretches because, on a missile, when the wedge was down, so was the particle screening. So they definitely have some under normal circumstances.
I've seen that a couple of places, although the first place said that they had shields over their sensors so they'd be fresh on the final approach. Those missiles didn't have ballistic phases since, until quite recently, they didn't have multiple drives, and any missile that goes ballistic on the final approach is not all that much more useful than a rapidly-moving piece of space junk.