..... I should have check my eyes, then again, that's happened when instead a pilot you have 20+ vernier (or something, Ichika just say 'A lot').
As for beam weapon, not really. For your information, modern main battle tank can and will survive heat radiation from a Tac nuke at 400 meter ground zero (the crew won't, but still). With the anticipation of transition between kinetic to directed energy weapon, real life doing an intensive research on anti-beam material BEFORE beam weapon even going operational. Tabane should have anticipate this already