lol good old eighties cartoon shows but most of us know the reason they could not hit anything with a laser ( which is generally pretty accurate ) is because that would have made the cartoon waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too violent for TV back then even though it is supposed to be a action/war show so unlike movies made around the same time & within the same genre everyone gets plenty of time to bail out of vehicles & the only casualties in shootouts are robots but when they made the animated movie some cobra troopers & a few joes did get wounded ( for the first time ) & Duke almost died :P