[Mobhack]

It is doing what I said before - if a vehicle has a VIRSS round available then it can check on an incoming missile, and if successful it blocks that missile. Success or failure, it still fires the smoke animation as part of the VIRSS routine, just like the explosion animation occurs for CIWS. The protection comes from the successful test, and has zip-zero to do with the smoke animation whatsoever.

All smoke in the SP games is "smoke", and can be seen through by TI, so the smoke so discharged has absolutely no effect on any subsequent missiles if fired by firers who themselves have TI.

Cheers
Andy