Hmm.
This relates to the earlier thread, the one about the Whitestreak superlight Aerospace Fighter? Individual bays are a bit much, don't you think? I envision them a kind of disposable one-shot drone.
So, I was thinking of a kind of hull-anchored drone tube - something flat, think a pistol magazine without the spring and a tube fore each drone. The drones are remotely activated and they just snap the restraints holding the drone in the tube.
Then there's a larger drone rack. Most Dropships already have the small craft bay; put a drone rack in it. Think of a honeycomb; the end of the honeycomb points out of the bay. The drone is launched by compressed gas, or just fire it up like the first ones and snap the restraints and it goes out the door. If you need to service a drone, just detach the restraints inside the tube and pull it out the back of the tube.
I like the second idea more; it becomes more a matter of the volume of the bay (and rack). And since the bay has space for crew, storage for munitions, and more, there seems a way for a few tons of cargo-stored drones, tools, and maintenance equipment with little concern. And of course, if there is no call for the drone (and the nuclear warhead) the the rack can be pulled out of the bay on the ground, or cut loose and pushed out in space, or whatever.