Willard, I've always known that Ray guns are the future, ever since I was a lad. But the ray guns they showed me didn't need half the airframe's space and power to make them work. With that space goes capability. When the frame is already short on range/payload/agility, this is hardly a great wonder for its future. Especially true as it's not yet op and failed to make it across the Atlantic.
So, too early to be imagining what it might do before it even does what it should, which is not even what it was imagined to do. Little steps...