The U.S. Navy has upgraded the USS Indianapolis, a Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), with counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) capabilities.
This allows the ship to shoot down drones using radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles effectively. The upgrades were made during the ship’s deployment in Fall 2024.
The enhancements involved software and hardware modifications to the Surface-to-Surface Missile Module (SSMM), a key part of...