How the hell do you fight drones in FTL?

I googled but couldn't find anything.Like when you're in a fight and an attack drone either circles your ship or the enemy ship, I click on them with a charged weapon but nothing happens...

You gotta take out the relevant system on the opposing ship to disable them.

You have to have an Anti-Drone...Drone or disable their drone subsystem or hack it, the drones themselves are not targets.

You can't attack drones directly (though they can be hit by weapons if they stray in front of them weapon I think) but you can take out the drone control room.

Yeah, this is true.

Cool thanks guys. Fucking loving this game btw, been sitting in my Steam library for like 10 months. I know how much the Bomb Squad always praised it, I just wasn't willing to put the time sink in...

@pinner458: For what it's worth, the drones that circle you ship are mostly regular laser hits, or sometimes beam weapons, so having a solid shield helps a lot. As others have said, if you want to actually combat them directly, there is an Anti-Drone Drone that will circle your ship defensively and occasionally stun enemy drones attacking your ship, with a small chance to randomly destroy the drone. And yes, you can destroy their drone room so that the drones will have no power.

Getting the Anti-Drone Drone (probably not the actual name, but it's close) isn't always going to happen, so I just recommend upgrading shields early and often. I prefer to get to 3 layers of shield in most games, while also maxing out engines so my ship dodges half of everything.

It is possible to time shooting the drones down when they go in front of your weapons; though not especially important/the enemy will usually just relaunch another one.

@pinner458: As others have pointed out you can combat drones by:

1). Taking out the drone subsystem in the enemy ship

2). Deploying your own Anti-drone Drone which will attack enemy drones around your ship

Or you can act defensively by:

1). Adding more shields

2). Increasing shield recharge rates (either with the Shield Recharge Booster augmentation and/or manning that system)

3). Increasing your dodge chance by upgrading your engines and/manning your Pilot and Engine systems

All that said, I usually act more defensively with drones and put use all my offense (weapons and boarding) to take out their weapons