Why would you want to take out small drones 40 km away???,(reply>), Because cricket sucks! 😂,(reply>), actually that ship can take out a cricket ball going over 2000mph 70 miles away if it wants to,(reply>), Scout drones or some such. Probably going to be more important in the future once drone technology becomes better, but I can imagine flying small drones would be a wonderful way of spotting enemy ships. Shooting that drone down from 40km away would allow you to kill it before such a small thing had any chance of seeing you with it's limited detection equipment.,(reply>), @Sander Datema As in boom boom military drones,(reply>), Flying my little quadcopter near the coast, suddenly it gets taken out by a battleship...