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Be interesting if they did that next to a Aircraft carrier, the ciws system will make mince of the drones.

Navy destroyers are equipped with Close In Weapons Systems too, you know.

The more recent DDG's, including the USS Kidd have those as well. I wonder why it wasn't used.

Would you want to fire several hundred kilos of tungsten in a random direction while you're next to the USA coast, where civilians and shipping pass by all the time?

Edit: as a reply, since I can't post faster:

CIWS, in certain modes, do indeed track a target and fire at it, which could be considered a "random direction" when considering the maneuverability of the target.

I would think CIWS systems don't fire in random directions. Anyway if these were just small drones that would probably be overkill, I would think a shotgun would be sufficient.

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