Tesla Cannon

The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted, energy weapon that fires powerful blasts of electricity.

Background
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.

Tesla Cannon



 * For the cut content Tesla Cannon found in Fallout 3, see: Tesla cannon (Beta).

Behind the scenes
 
 * The Tesla cannon was originally to be featured in the canceled Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, bearing a striking resemblance to the weapon in Broken Steel. Described as a "high-powered mass-cannon throwing tessellated plasma forward in an orgy of death and destruction" in the FO:BOS2 design document, it was to be the so-called "uber-weapon" of player character Maxus. "Uber-weapons" were to be unique weapons for each PC which had to be assembled from 5 parts over the course of the game. One of the five parts for this weapon was a Tesla coil.
 * Nikola Tesla really did try to create a directed energy weapon but it would have been a particle beam weapon called a "Teleforce", something that would be immensely complicated to create, laser weapons would be simple by comparison.