http://www.nature.com/news/military-technology-laser-weapons-get-real-1.17613
Like seriously I can't find a single con against them. They're more precise then any bullet, undetectable, lethal, silent, VERY cheap (to fire anyway), handy and literally allows a single Infantry squad to deploy an Anti-Aircraft battery in a minute.
Lasers can't shoot over terrain features or over the horizon. Right now you also need a massive and heavy power supply to run them.
And there we go. There are some cons to lasers. I guess you could arc it over a hill or something with Light refraction, but there'd have to be a random mirror floating in the sky. A drone maybe?
Maybe enough battery life in the laser to shoot down one small drone, like a Hand-launched recon drone. 2 together might be able to blind a pilot and 3 could take down a fighter, maybe?
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on October 19, 2015, 11:02:34 AM
Lasers can't shoot over terrain features or over the horizon. Right now you also need a massive and heavy power supply to run them.
Bah! Just float some mirrors on drones! ;)