LAER

The LAER is a weapon

Characteristics
The LAER is an energy rifle. It has low critical hit damage, low item HP, and is rare. It has a very high spread for an energy rifle. When compared to its variant, Elijah's advanced LAER, the standard model has 50% more HP, but fires slower.

Durability
The LAER can fire a total of about 370 times using standard cells, the equivalent of 19 reloads, or 14 reloads when modified with the auxiliary recharger chip, from full condition before breaking.

Modifications

 * LAER mod - auxiliary recharger chip - recycles one round per four shots.
 * LAER mod - prismatic lens - splits the beam into three beams increasing total damage by 30% similar to the Laser rifle beam splitter.

Variants

 * Elijah's advanced LAER

Locations
Seven LAERs can be found in total:
 * One can be found in the Big MT north tunnel, toward the northernmost side of the lower level below the force field.
 * Another one can be found at the X-8 research center on Gabe's corpse.
 * One can be found at X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch on the corpse of the unique sentry bot, RY-589 Ultimo Bot.
 * One on the remains of the giant robo-scorpion, in the X-42 robo-warfare facility.
 * In the same room, in a chamber connected to the exit platform. It is on a table in the middle of the room, and it is in good condition. This one requires a force field to be disabled in order to gain access to it.
 * Another one is in the Forbidden Zone's dome section, in the second floor room, just left of the brain tank.
 * One can be found on top of the X-13 research facility. In order to reach it, the player character must jump down from the cliff to the north. The cliff can be climbed by jumping up a pile of rocks just to the west of the Big MT west tunnel.

Behind the scenes

 * It was at first a cut energy weapon of Fallout: New Vegas, appearing in the concept art section of the Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition complete with its own icon in the game file.
 * Its acronym "Laser Assisted Electrical Rifle" is seen in concept art.