Laser Rifle (Fallout: New Vegas)

The AER9 laser rifle is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The laser rifle has no iron sights but compensates with excellent zoom. It can be upgraded with a scope, making it less effective in close quarters, but thanks to its good accuracy, it can be used as a medium to long-range weapon. The laser rifle makes a decent starting weapon, but with all mods and more powerful ammo types, it is extremely powerful, even at high levels.

Durability
The laser rifle can fire a total of about 620 times using standard cells, the equivalent of 26 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Modifications

 * Laser rifle focus optics - Adds +3 damage
 * Laser rifle scope - Adds a long range scope with 3.5x magnification
 * Laser rifle beam splitter - Splits each shot into 3 beams, with greater total power than a single beam and an independant crit chance

Variants

 * Van Graff laser rifle - A special version of laser rifle given by the Van Graffs during the quest Birds of a Feather.
 * AER14 prototype - The unique version of the laser rifle in Fallout: New Vegas.


 * The Disintegrator - A cut version of the laser rifle that deals a very large amount of damage per shot.

Locations

 * Fiends often carry them.
 * Hidden Valley bunker - Torres may sell laser rifles.
 * Found on the dead Brotherhood patrols during the Still in the Dark quest.
 * Can also be found on the three Brotherhood scouts.
 * Nipton - Another can be found lying beside a dead wastelander in the Good Luck trailer park.
 * Nipton house - One can be found inside in the bathtub of one of the houses.
 * Silver Rush - Gloria may sell laser rifles, and numerous laser rifles can be stolen from around the store.
 * They can often be purchased from Quartermaster Bardon.
 * One can be found in a hotel room in Primm.
 * Can be found on Y-17 trauma override harnesses at lower levels.

Behind the scenes
The markings on these rifles as well as their descriptions hint at the types of lasing mediums used in each variant. The 1064-nm wavelength (frequency-converted to green, 532-nm) of the AER14 prototype strongly indicates that it is a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser while the ~650-nm wavelength of the AER9 laser rifle indicates that it is likely a Ruby, InGaAs or HeNe laser.