Hope for The LCS Montgomery?

 The U.S. Navy may have found an expensive way to make some of the LCS ships more usable. Allow them to fire missiles at enemy drones. It does NOT include the LCS Montgomery and other Independence variant ships, but it could lead to that improvement! "Hope springs", as the saying goes.

A Naval news release addresses the upgrade needed for it to work:

The LCS Montgomery, named after Alabama's Capitol

"The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Mission Modules program office has successfully delivered critical Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) capabilities to the forward-deployed Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis (LCS 17).

In Fall 2024, the program upgraded both the software and hardware of the Surface-to-Surface Missile Module (SSMM) to enhance the ship’s defense posture while on deployment. This rapid deployment of C-UAS capability underscores the flexibility of SSMM in addressing a range of threats, including surface, land and aerial challenges."