• evranch@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Sure lasers don’t have recoil, but I see no reason a laser gun can’t have recoil.

    Anything from flywheel energy storage, a lasing medium compressed by pistons, massive magnetic fields created by high currents, who knows what’s inside that thing.

    A handheld laser gun has to generate a beam of such unrealistic intensity that I’d be surprised if the power stage didn’t buck in some manner.