Legend-class cutters are fitted for, not with, VLS

Do Legend-class Coast Guard cutters carry sixteen VLS cells?

No. They appear designed with space for roughly sixteen cells, but the launchers are not fitted.

The Legend class has visible space where a VLS installation could go, probably around sixteen cells suitable for quad-packed ESSM. That is a design allowance rather than an installed capability. Other positions on the hull might accept weapons such as Harpoon or Naval Strike Missile, but current cutters remain armed chiefly with guns. The distinction between fitted-for and fitted-with matters because reserved volume does not provide combat capability until launchers, sensors, integration, and funding follow.