It’s an AK-47 fit for “Star Wars.”

China has developed a prototype laser assault rifle that can incinerate a target about a half-mile away, according to the South China Morning Post.

The ZKZM-500 has similar dimensions to the AK-47 — but unlike the famous Soviet-era Kalashnikov, China’s version produces an invisible energy beam that can cause the “instant carbonization” of human skin and tissues.

One laser weapons expert said the new weapon can “burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire.”

“The pain will be beyond endurance,” according to the researcher who tested a prototype at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi province.

The 15mm rifle weighs 6.6 pounds — about the same as an AK-47 — and has a range of 800 meters, or half a mile. It can be mounted on cars, boats and planes.

The ZKZM-500, which costs about $15,000, is ready for mass production and is likely to be given to anti-terrorism units of the Chinese police.

The weapon is powered by a rechargeable lithium battery and produces no sound, so “nobody will know where the attack came from. It will look like an accident,” another researcher said.

It can fire more than 1,000 “shots,” each lasting no more than a couple of seconds.

Wang Zhimin, a researcher at the Research Centre for Laser Physics and Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said technological improvements have allowed scientists to develop smaller and more powerful devices in the same way that mobile phone makers had done.

“This is no longer science fiction. They are already a fact of life,” he said.