Laser RCW

The  is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
The RCW acronym stands for "Rapid Capacitor Weapon".

It's a greatly modified tommy gun whose operating principle is as follows, the electron charge pack loaded into the "drum" area is powering banks of capacitors in the "drum" around it that fire in rapid succession to give the weapon its high rate of fire.

Characteristics
The Laser RCW is a pulsed laser rifle, or Laser SMG, using electron charge packs for ammunition. With adequate Energy Weapons skill the weapon exhibits amazing accuracy, making it useful for taking down enemies at almost any range. When used in semi-automatic fire it can even be used as a sniper weapon. Being a direct energy weapon it has no recoil allowing for continuous accurate fire. However, using it extensively on full-auto requires large amounts of ammunition. A partial solution to this problem is to apply the Laser RCW Recycler mod, which recycles every fourth discharge.

Locations

 * One can be bought/stolen from the Silver Rush.
 * One can be found on one of the corpses by the locked door in the lobby of REPCONN Headquarters.
 * Fiends occasionally carry them.
 * Brotherhood of Steel scribes often carry them as well as Elder McNamara.

Modifications

 * Laser RCW Recycler

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas.