Yes! Yes it's this! This is the high tech laser they use to melt the cheese while "cracking" the coconut.
It's actually from Command and Conquer, an RTS franchise Westwood started, the company either became or was eaten by EA. This is a defensive structure of the Brotherhood of NOD that fires a slow charging but devastating laser that obliterates most units in at
least most 2 shots (at least in Tiberian Dawn/ Sun not sure about this newfangled CnC4).
I think there's a RoC or Electricraft engine that could simulate it's telltale electrical humming sound (shown in that vid) but this was just a play around with the concept. I could have used a CC entity detector that matched the range of the laser to sent the redstone signal through repeaters to simulate it's charge up. I'd have built it taller but I think it's range is spherical and the higher you go up the more ground range it loses. Also the laser is picky with it's targets I have a homebrew pack with Lycanites and the pinky demons are ignored by the laser. Probably becasue Lycanites classifies the hostile mob as farm animals (which you can do, a Doom pinky demon farm sold that mod for me). It would be nice if you can fine tune targeting parameters for the RoC defensive emplacements like you can with players (But if you already can tips would be helpful).
Anything to make those poor misguided fools from the GDI realize that tiberium is the way forward, it's a gift from the heavens yanno brother Kain told us so.
