Neat
I vaguely remember them experimenting with it, but I was under the assumption that they weren't really able to get it to work.
I want to see them on tanks as an anti-personnel weapon. Not that I'm getting a Martian's itchy-trigger finger, but it would sure put a dampener on any army that thinks they can win a conflict just by having superior numbers. Sort of like the artillery Gatling guns when they were first developed.
I don't think anyone today thinks it just requires superior numbers to win, that ship has long sailed.
Of course those will think God is on their side, they don't think they have
only numbers.
I'm disappointed by the lack of pew pew or bright colors. What's the point of developing a death ray if it doesn't pew pew or have bright colors? Ah well, at least enemy combatants can now say, "Book it, here comes the LaWS" or "I fought the LaWS and the LaWS won".
That will be in six months and made available for download at a slight charge at the shop. :|
Though not being able to easily detect the that particular weapon's invisible strength, radius, or coverage could be considered a plus.