Several years after the Klendathu System Campaign, the E-pulse 44 Rifle was introduced to the Mobile Infantry, and used in at least several units of the 701st Mobile Infantry. The E-pulse rifles are more powerful than the conventional Morita Assault Rifle, but had a slower rate of fire. These rifles were equipped late into the First Bug War, however by the Second Bug War, they were not put into any form of mass production; the Federation instead opting to arm its forces Morita III Assault Rifles.