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. The design was named after Nikola Tesla, but his work was never publicized until after his death as the US Government developed the cannon. When used,the cannon projects a blast that will damage the enemy on impact with an aftermath of electricity reducing the enemies health.

This weapon has a high strength requirement for its weight and the fact that it's a recoilless energy weapon.

Locations

 * Silver Rush (May be available for purchase)
 * Hidden Valley bunker (May be available for purchase, after the player is given access to the weapons cache)
 * Crashed Vertibird (unique version, Tesla-Beaton prototype)

The Tesla Cannon is very rare, especially if players kill off the Van Graffs, thereby eliminating the only specialty energy weapon vendor in the game. It may be more beneficial in the long run to simply retrieve the unique Tesla-Beaton prototype from the Crashed Vertibird location rather than chance it waiting on shopkeepers' inventories to randomize.

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 with the Broken Steel DLC. It was going to appear in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which was canceled by Interplay.