How to deal with enemy drones?

[Taberone]

Playing the IOS port, ran into a rebel disruptor, its drones started shooting at me, it started to laser the rooms of my ship, eventually blew up the rebel disruptor.

Is there a way to target drones?

[Kaerius]

You cannot target drones directly, the best way to disable them is to disable the drone system on the enemy ship(ion, damage, hacking, etc).

Advanced Edition also introduced anti-combat drones, which stuns enemy attack drones, this should be on iOS as well I think, since it's a free update from the developer... there's also mods that introduce drone destroyer drones, but I think that might not be available on iOS.

[David]

Shields are your basic defense against drones, its one of the times having someone in the shield room recharging shield faster can be more useful. A MK II combat drone can eventually take down unmanned shields all on its own.

Anti-combat drone can both stun & has a chance to destroy enemy drones. I think it only costs 1 power and shoots fast, haven't really used it much but I think its quite effective if you do.

Finally, you can target the enemy drone system as above or with boarders.

If a drone strays in front of your guns while they shoot, it can be temporarily knocked out of action, enemy ships carry a couple of spare drones though. Flak guns are decent at taking out drones in front of them in any case.