The US sometimes produces technological marvels but often produces things that are nothing more than money sinks. A better answer to Type I drones is a cheap system to fire a projectile that explodes into hundreds of tiny pellets when in proximity of the target. We already know how to make cheap and good-enough-for-this-purpose projectiles of this kind, which could be fired from a basic cheap barrel with a basic cheap target acquisition system. Type II drones could be killed with more expensive and elaborate systems - e.g. a different weapon, purpose-built. Lasers have so many limitations that they are still best suited for sci-fi, not the battlefield. Sure, defense contractors love getting big piles of government money, but that money would be better spent on developing cheap systems that actually work and could be manufactured in bulk and deployed quickly to where they are needed. Pork barrel defense spending may be a proud US tradition, but it's not one that helps anyone except the executives and shareholders of the big defense companies.