Tracking projectiles fired from an autodefensedevice with the "missiles" target criteria and autoaqcuiretarget set to 'true' will target ships when they retarget after their initial target is destroyed, rather than other missiles.

0xabcdef 7 Oct 2018:

The projectile does not contain any targetCriteria data to be inherited. The device simply spawns a projectile and sets its target to a missile.