Military

Some U.S. Navy warships are getting another option to counter unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, and it didn’t cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars or take a decade to develop. In fact, the USS Indianapolis received the upgrade while deployed to the Red Sea area of operations last fall. The Navy said it upgraded the hardware and software on the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship’s surface-to-surface missile module (SSMM). One of the launchers on the ships, designed to shoot missiles at targets on the water or land, can now target threats in the sky. The new capability is a direct…