Tesla Cannon (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Tesla cannon is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted energy weapon that is powered by electron charge packs. This weapon has a high Strength requirement for its weight and the fact that it's a recoilless energy weapon. The sound of the Tesla cannon firing has also been changed from the one in Broken Steel. The Tesla cannon is considered a unique class of weapon and therefore cannot benefit from the Jury Rigging perk.

The Tesla cannon is rare, especially so if the Courier kills the Van Graffs, thereby eliminating one of the only specialty energy weapon vendors in the game.

Durability
The Tesla cannon can fire a total of about 395 times using standard packs, the equivalent of 99 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Tesla-Beaton prototype
 * Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon

Locations

 * Hidden Valley
 * Brotherhood of Steel safehouse
 * The Great Khan armorer at the armory outside of Red Rock Canyon will stock this at random.
 * May also be available for purchase at the Silver Rush after level 16.
 * May be found in Big MT.
 * Carried by Y-17 trauma override harnesses at higher levels.
 * - May be found in the various high-tech gun cases found at Dry Wells, the Long 15 and The Courier's Mile.
 * - Can sometimes be found on irradiated NCR heavy troopers that were stationed on the Long 15.