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Originally Posted by TrueKnight
The weapons technology in the Avatar universe seems didn’t recognize or develop laser or energy weaponry, but instead they focus on projectiles and missiles. So in a sense we can still relate with the RDA and humans weaponry because the specs are quite between our time and them, with the exception of space technology, human/biological engineering, robots/exoskeletons or visual monitors.
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For all we know humans in the Avatarverse might well have "sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads". It's mentioned in the backstory that they mainly have to use late 21st century tech on Pandora, because the older models work a lot better than the new, fancy stuff due to Pandora's different gravity, atmosphere, and magnetic fields etc.
Like they say about the scorpion gunship:
The AT-99 “Scorpion” Gunship is a highly maneuverable Mosquito-class missile platform. It is a late twenty first century airframe, developed in a period when UCAV’s were being phased out due to EMP ground-to-air weaponry falling into the hands of insurgents and terrorists, which required human pilots to be re-instated into combat aircraft after eight decades of Unmanned Aerial Combat Vehicles. Because all vehicles used on Pandora are manufactured in situ using stereolithography production techniques, it was necessary to choose vehicles from amongst 21st century designs that did not require the exotic materials technology of the mid-22nd century warfighting airframes. http://www.pandorapedia.com/doku.php/scorpion_gunship