Phasers against UAVs

22-4-9 Drones, Missiles, Mercenaries in Future of Militaries - CNBC > .

> DEWs - Directed Energy Weapons >>  

24-2-19 Laser 7 Microwave Weapons - DEW Programs, Potential, Issues - Perun > .

> Drones >>

23-12-15 FPV drone use in R-U war - cheap guided missiles - Binkov > .

23-9-24 Combat Drones & Future Air Warfare - Humans + Wingman - Perun > .

23-7-26 Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Doc > .

23-6-7 Ukrainian Defense Tech Boom - War Startups - U24 > .

23-6-30 Directed Energy Weapons - Lasers vs Drones, Missiles - T&P > .

23-6-13 Drones and the Dystopian Future of War - Journeyman > .

22-11-11 Economics of Kamikaze Drones - nwyt > . skip > .

22-10-27 Pooti's [Desperate] Iranian Drones | Peter Zeihan, Ben Hodges > .

2013 Rise of the Drones (FULL doc) | NOVA | PBS > .

Companies are now developing and deploying sophisticated new defences, from frying the electronic circuits with powerful beams of microwave radiation (phasers), to precise jamming systems.

...

By programming a UAV to fly around numerous points before arriving at its target it can avoid the obvious directions from which an attack is expected. This may explain why existing radars failed to spot the drone formation which attacked Abqaiq.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49984415

Drones (UAVs) ..

Future Air Power ..