In article <01c044f0$1483ddc0$727889d0@daysix>, "H. E. Day" 
<Pov### [at] aolcom> wrote:

> There is only one drawback to this weapon, which is it's inability to 
> function in a vacuum. 

In that case, at short range you can just thrust backwards until your 
enemy follows you into the trail of ions your thrusters leave behind. 
You would quickly run out of fuel that way though...and this looks like 
a ground-based vehicle.
Or fire rockets which leave a relatively dense trail of ions. Or just 
use the lasers themselves...if they can ionize air to a high enough 
degree to carry and direct an electrical current, they are probably 
pretty powerful. (what portions of the spectrum are best absorbed by 
air?)

Faraday cages might be a problem, you would probably want *some* kinetic 
energy weapons. Bullets, high velocity rockets, something a bit more 
effective than your beak.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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