Missile (Fallout 3)

The Missile is a big guns ammunition found in the game. It is only used with the Missile Launcher and its unique variants. With the Scrounger perk, you may find huge numbers of missiles in ammo boxes.

More Information on the Missle
Missle's and the Missle Launcher are the rarest of weapons in the game. It is believed that, because it is a cheap and unfair weapon when enemies use it against you, that Bethesda decided to not spawn too many enemies with them. 90% of the time you encounter an enemy that has a rocket launcher, it will be a Super Mutant, and there are rare occurances (one very early in the game heading towards Tenpenny tower from Vault 101) that you will find a wastelander using one.

Sometimes, you will find missle's randomly on different enemies, one's that are not using a rocket launcher. This especially happens for those with the Scrounger perk, as noted above.

Location of Missles in the Wasteland
There are two places in particular where you will find missles. One is at Murder Pass. If you decide to take the harder path to get to Vault 82, there is at least one Super Mutant who is using a Rocket Launcher that you can acquire at least one missle from.

The second location of where you can find Missles are in the National Archives (read more on the side quest Stealing Independence to figure out how to get to the Archives). While clearing out the archives of enemies, certain security bots will fire missles at you, and at killing of these robots and scavaging their bodies, you will find at least one missle on them.

If you are looking into purchasing missles, they can be bought at the front desk of Tenpenny Tower or at Flak and Shrapnel's place in the Rivet City marketplace.


 * One missile generally cost 60-70 caps depending on your Barter skills when buying them from sellers. It is generally a good idea to conserve you missle's for tough enemies and pick up any you find.

Fallout 3 Weapons Using Missile Ammunition

 * Missile Launcher
 * Miss Launcher