Lasers can destroy enemy missles, UAVs

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/07/navy_aircraftprotection_071108w/
 
A defense contractor announced July 8 that it has successfully tested a weapons system that it says could protect aircraft operating from military and civilian airfields, as well as Navy ships and other infrastructure, from “a broad range of threats,” including shoulder-fired surface to air missile systems and unmanned aerial vehicles.

General Dynamics’ ground-based Counter Man-Portable Airspace Protection System uses a system of sensors, an autonomous data integration center, and high powered lasers to track and destroy surface to air missiles and small unmanned aerial vehicles by targeting “critical aircraft components”...