[ben_w]

It's unlikely Russia has a 3 megawatt laser and the optics to hit a satellite at this time. Anti-drone defence would be much easier with much worse than that.

That said, the ongoing improvements to lasers, and price reductions, in a decade I expect the limiting factor for random terrorists performing such an attack would be adaptive optics to get past atmospheric distortion.

[toomuchtodo]

I strongly believe China has this laser and adaptive optics capability today, they’re just not going to show their hand until they’re ready.

Agree in a decade any rando will be able to accomplish this.