Those anti-drone lasers won’t really have been tailored made or rated for suicide drones and DJIs. Rather I think the primary target those lasers are meant to take out are military grade recon drones, which are much harder targets to kill since they don’t pack explosive payloads you can easily touch off and are usually built to last.
But then they wouldn’t really have to be rated against suicide drones if they can take down military grade drones. Just as if you have a round that can reliably penetrate level 4 plate out to 400m, you are not really going to be bothered if in the real world your target is just wearing a shirt.
Yes, you can in theory target weak spots, but that would likely mean you will be sacrificing engagement range and/or rate, as it’s more time consuming to aim for a small specific spot on a drone as opposed to just putting the laser beam on its centre mass.
I think if part of the system does need refinement to deal with suicide drones and DJIs/FPVs, it would be the track rate of the motors that drive the laser turret. It’s one think to target a relatively stable flying conventional fixed wing recon drone, but it will be much harder to get the laser beam on target against much smaller FPVs zipping about. The sensors might also needs upgrading to be able to pick up smaller targets.
Indeed, I think the biggest technical bottlenecks for using lasers to counter FPVs would be target tracking and laser aiming.
You can build more precise and faster motors and actuators, but I think the problem won’t be fundamentally solved until you can develop some sort of electronic beam steering similar to AESA radars. Indeed, it might actually be easier to develop microwave based anti FPV hard kill defences using AEAS beam forming tech as opposed to developing something that can work in a similar way for lasers.
