This is pretty much what I think of nearly every anime:
So you've decided to enlist the support of teenagers who haven't even hit puberty yet and equip them with highly sensitive and dangerous equipment, send them out to battle with minimal training and experience and put them in charge of everything despite there being more experienced leaders to choose from. I applaud you for your stupidity.
We all like plasma weapons, right? Well, unfortunately, it's not as simple as we think. Considering the extreme temperatures of plasma, you would need confine it magnetically with a tokamak. I don't think I need to continue.