Still, that would require a laser blast 100x as powerful to take down the drone. Also: what would that do to the effective range of the weapon? Plus, dependin

Still, that would require a laser blast 100x as powerful to take down the drone. Also: what would that do to the effective range of the weapon? Plus, depending on how much control the attacking drone has, that's also 99% of the beam being deflected back at the ship with the laser.