Type 3 Phaser Rifle

The Starfleet Type-3 Phaser rifle is a type of phaser weapon, a rifle stock variation of the standard hand-held phaser weapon, with additional features as well as increased range and power pack. This Phaser Rifle is known in Federation parlance as a type-3, this is one of several weapons, differeing in power and range,  used by Starfleet in combat situations that required more powerful weaponry than a standard phaser.

The standard Type 3 phaser has a 50% greater energy reserve than its Type 2 counterpart, this increase allows for longer periods of fire and a slight rise in output levels. The latest and most commonly used version of the Type 3 incorporates a deuterium plasma generator that can be replaced in the field, a twelve stage plasma accelerator, a five stage cascading pre-fire chamber and a transitional-phase pulse accelerator. Phaser rifles have 16 power settings, fully autonomous recharge ability, multiple-target acquisition, and gyro stabilization.

Some more advanced phaser rifles, or compression rifle, could fire energy pulses, along with the normal phaser beam.