I want to add to that, that lasers are situational in the atmosphere (e.g. launch your nukes when it rains at the target to disadvantage the defender), there is

I want to add to that, that lasers are situational in the atmosphere (e.g. launch your nukes when it rains at the target to disadvantage the defender), there is so much absorption and scattering. Even the space-borne concepts were duds due to their one-time use: they were chemically pumped since you needed so much power to make it through the atmosphere and the guiding mirrors would rapidly break due to micrometeorites. Short range concepts these days rely on multiple laser-emitter sites (like the Rheinmetall fiber-laser turret) to intercept a single target, with multiple beams on target. Dwell times are in the range of multiple seconds for drones and with rain, they can easily go up by a factor of 8 - for some incoming targets (e.g. rockets), the dwell time is already 10s of seconds and rain extends the dwell time beyond what the round needs to impact (as in this study [0]). [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/EFFECTIVENESS_OF_LASER_WEAPONS_IN_THE_ENVIRONMENT_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIA_%28IA_effectivenessofl1094563470%29.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/EFFECTIV...