Rifle

A Rifle is a handheld firearm firing from an "intermediary" cartridge, heavier than a Carbine, but lighter than a Battle Rifle (which has a "full" cartridge"), and often firing projectiles of some form of matter in a direct linear trajectory.

There are twelve appearances of "rifle" in the Halo universe:

United Nations Space Command

Assault Rifles

HMG series

• HMG-38 Rifle - an older rifle no longer used by the UNSC, presumably an assault rifle

MA series

• MA2B Assault Rifle - a stripped-down variant MA5B assault rifle
• MA3 Assault Rifle - an earlier version of the MA-series assault rifles
• MA5B Assault Rifle - the most common MA-series rifle, featured in Halo: Combat Evolved.
• MA5C Assault Rifle - newer version of the MA5B rifle, featured in Halo 3.
• MA5K Assault Rifle - uncommon MA-series rifle wielded by special operations groups such as the SPARTAN-IIIs

Battle Rifles

• BR55 Battle Rifle - two-handed firearm firing in 3-round bursts featured in Halo 2

Nonlinear Rifles

• Anti-Vehicle Model 6 Grindell/Galileian Nonlinear Rifle (W/AV M6 G/GNR) - shoulder-mounted anti-vehicular directed laser weapon featured in Halo 3

Sniper Rifles

• SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle - long-range two-handed projectile weapon
• SRS99D Sniper Rifle - Halo 3-variant of the SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle

Covenant

Particle

• Particle Beam Rifle - long-range two-handed weapon, analogous to the UNSC SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle

Plasma

• Plasma Rifle - one-handed plasma-operated weapon typically wielded by Sangheili (Elites)
• Brute Plasma Rifle - variant of the standard plasma rifle wielded by Brutes.

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