Laser Weapon. The waiting is over.

Where's the pew pew?

where is the red laser?
where is the pew pew sound?

this laser fails

Red?

It should be Green!

it was never green in goldeneye, or any of the fillms, therefore it must be red

I think this would be much more painful than being shot with a bullet.

Doesn't seem to be much penetration. Gotta wonder how effective a weapon it'd make.

It's an anti-personnel weapon, effectively the equivalent of an aerial sniper rifle. It's mounted in a modified AC-130 gunship.

I imagine that it would be extremely painful, debilitating and probably lethal if applied to human flesh.

Also, my mistake in my first post - it's not designed to shoot down missiles. That's another type of laser they're developing.

The US military makes some cool stuff, though. They're experimenting with railguns that could eventually be deployed on their new Zumwalt-class destroyers.

And what happens if someone gets a mirror out?

Then the AC-130 sees the target and just fires an artillery round at his/her face.