(Starship Troopers) - Morita Rifle Series

The Morita rifle series is a series of fictional weapons created for the Starship Troopers series, with obvious influence from the M41A Pulse Rifle from 1986's Aliens.
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==Morita Mk I Rifle==
The full-sized Morita rifle is used by Mobile Infantry standard/enlisted soldiers with the Morita Carbine being carried by fleet pilots and officers (see below). The weapons themselves are built around Ruger AC556 rifles with the full-size rifles also containing an underslung short-barreled Ithaca 37 shotgun. The weapons utilize a modified Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock to house the Ruger AC-556 rifles and the Ithaca 37 shotguns (for the Morita rifle only). The Morita rifles and carbines in the film also feature a muzzle brake from the M60 machine gun.
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Date
Starship Troopers	Casper Van Dien	Johnny Rico 	1997
Starship Troopers	Jake Busey 	Ace Levy 	1997
Starship Troopers	Dina Meyer 	Dizzy Flores 	1997
Starship Troopers	Various Actors 	Mobile Infantry troops	1997
 
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==Morita Mk I Carbine==
thumb|right|450px|Morita Mk I Carbine.
A shortened version of the Morita Rifle that is issued to Federation Pilots, as well as Officers and Senior NCOs of the Mobile Infantry (also known as the "Hero Carbine"). It is the same Ruger AC556-based Muzzelite Custom stocked rifle as the full sized Morita, except that it contains a shorter barrel and forend without the Ithaca 37 shotgun. 
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Date
Starship Troopers	Michael Ironside	Jean Rasczak 	1997
Starship Troopers	Casper Van Dien 	Johnny Rico 	1997
Starship Troopers	Patrick Muldoon 	Zander Barcalow	1997
Starship Troopers	Denise Richards 	Carmen Ibanez 	1997
Starship Troopers	Steven Ford 	Lt. Willy 	1997
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==Morita Mk I Sniper Rifle==
thumb|right|450px|Morita Mk I Scoped Sniper Rifle.
A full-size Morita Rifle with a large multitask scope. It is the same basic weapon with the addition of an advanced scope capable of tracking and zooming in on a target. 
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Date
Starship Troopers	Michael Ironside	Jean Rasczak 	1997
Starship Troopers	Seth Gilliam 	'Sugar' Walkins	1997
==Morita MK II Advanced Systems Rifle==
thumb|right|450px|Trooper aims a Morita MK II Advanced Systems Rifle
The new improved battle rifle of the Mobile Infantry is shown at the end of the movie, destroying the top of a hill in a large explosion. Unlike the first model, this has no live firearm housed inside. It is a completely fabricated prop, made out of vacuum-formed plastics, aluminum, and resin.
Title 	Actor	Character	Date
Starship Troopers	 	 	1997
==Morita Mk III==
In Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, the Mobile Infantry has adopted the Morita Mk. III. The rifle bears a resemblance to the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, complete with "over-slung" grenade launcher and a long scope that ends in a flashlight(!). The weapon itself is actually a Vektor R5 assault rifle, a South African variant of the Galil assault rifle, housed in a very bulky-looking gun mold. As a nod to Aliens and the M41A Pulse Rifle, it canonically chambers a 10x50mm caseless cartridge (although the M41A uses a smaller 10x24mm cartridge) and feeds from a 99-round magazine.
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Date
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder	Casper Van Dien	Colonel Johnny Rico	2008
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder	Jolene Blalock 	Capt. Lola Beck 	2008
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