China has achieved a major engineering breakthrough in high-altitude wind power, with the domestically developed S4000 airborne wind power system recently completing a full-process flight test at a test base in northwest China.The successful test marks
I suspect regular guns are still likely more effective. Problem with lasers is that they need heavy batteries, and need to keep on target for a while to actually do damage. They also don’t work well in rain, fog, or any other bad weather. What we’ll likely see is just guns with AI system targeting them.