Real-world Development
- Radar is the result of attempts to develop rayguns before WWII
- CBS in their show 60 minutes showed a real weapon described as a raygun. This video of it shows that it is most likely the Active Denial System.
- Recent real developments of laser guns have produced artillery-sized weapons which might be described as rayguns, but usually are not.
- See electrolaser for an electric current sent through a laser beam.
- See Directed-energy weapon for various real weapons which are more or less like rayguns.
- See Directed-energy weapon#Tesla for reports that Tesla made a real directed-energy weapon.
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