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 two beams, with greater total power than a single beam

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.
 * 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.

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.