Laser Beam Rifle Burns Hole 5 Miles Away

California-based TRW Systems is working on a LASER BEAM RIFLE, according to TIME magazine. Their "portable chemical laser (which produces a beam from the energy released in the reaction of two or more chemicals) that could be carried into battle by a unit of only three men. Aimed like a rifle, it would silently burn a fatal, quarter-inch-wide hole in the body of an enemy soldier up to five miles away. 'Once you've got him in your sights,' says a TRW engineer, 'you've got him. There are no misses.'" I want one. (props to Danger Room)