July 23, 201312 yr All right, I did a bit more research and I think my earlier request was in error. I also think some versions of the LCS may be armed more heavily than they are supposed to be. The LCS basically comes with the following as its “baseline” combat system… 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles And then it has these two open modules. I’m assuming that the “standard” versions of the Freedom-class and the Independence-class has the two 30 mm. guns (the “surface combat” modules) and the SURTASS version sacrifices those two guns in return for modules full of ELINT equipment and other sensors. For the two “fictional” versions of the LCS, it is assumed they receive additional weapons. For the (SCS) [#] version of the Freedom-class, I recommend keeping the sensors already listed for this platform but only adding two 30-mm. guns and two 15-missile Netfires CLU modules. It now looks like the version described in this video... For the MMC [#] version of the Independence-class, I recommend removing the 30-mm. guns, leaving the sensor package already provided, and adding only the two 30-mm. guns and 2 Mk 57 4-cell VLS systems, as per the FFGL 1 Evarts [#] platform. This gives it a flexible 8-cell cruise missile/torpedo mount. So we end up with... LCMS Oriole <-- fictional platform; leave as is or give it the same guns as the basic LCS Freedom LMCS Chickadee <-- fictional platform; leave as is or give it the same guns as the basic LCS Independence LCS Freedom 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 2x Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles LCS Freedom (SURTASS) 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles (sacrifices 30 mm. guns for extra sensors, etc. equipment in the modules) LCS Independence 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 2x Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles LCS Freedom (SCS) [#] 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles 2x Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm guns 2 x Netfires CLU (15) missile modules LCS Independence (MCM) [#] 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[8] 4x .50-cal machine guns 21x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles 2x Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm guns 2 x Mk 57 VLS (4-cell)
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