Funny how my neighborhood has sodium lamps but the poorer part has LEDs. My part of the street recently stopped lighting them at all so now I can see the stars, it's glorious
I can show you a chunky 500W cable for a pc power supply, would be just as relevant. Look up cables of actual laser power supplies, they're big and relatively dense, and we're talking about tethering a quad, it's not gonna fly well with that dangling.
Ok and? Still needs batteries and cables to withstand peak power, still needs to be tethered somehow, still needs another crew member constantly flying it. Not to mention being this close to combat and to the ground, you better have some insanely good lens protectors or that laser is gonna be out of commission after any shrapnel lodges itself in.
Completely made up idea to counter this made up idea, but if you're putting it on armor - a 12 gauge turret sounds so much easier. Doesn't need a shitload of power, can put it onto a generic stand/turret base, targeting is easier and you're guaranteed to ruin the enemy drone's life
We still don't know the full story, it was probably a drone flying rounds trying to detect fiber optic and something else cut the cable, there's no way you're powering a 5kW laser off a quad
edit: even if it's tethered, which isn't a real thing yet
Reminds me of stories of people whose native language doesn't have gendered nouns (or anything at all) figuring that shit out for the first time. Imagine pointing at random stuff and finding out that fridges and desks and different food all have fucking genders
Prestige of sharing space with tax wasting dumbasses maybe lol, it's very minor stuff though, nothing important going on there