Alien³

Alien³ (1992)

Alien³ is the third installment in the Alien film franchise. The 1992 sequel was directed by David Fincher and this time finds Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) stranded on a prison planet where she has to once again deal with a spawned Alien. Plagued by numerous production problems, the film has since been disavowed by Fincher.

The following weapons were used in the film Alien³:

WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!

M41A Pulse Rifle

The M41A Pulse Rifle makes a return appearance in Alien³. The rifles are carried by commandos (according to the novelization) from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation that land on the prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161 to retrieve the Alien and the Queen Alien Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is carrying. These are the same firearms used in Aliens, however the shrouds were replaced with new ones, which were painted black instead of "Brown Bess". The weapons were made from a M1A1 Thompson submachine gun with a Remington 870 shotgun underneath the shroud and foregrip of a Franchi SPAS-12. The commandos fire the pulse rifle on Aaron (Ralph Brown) after he strikes Michael Bishop (Lance Henriksen, credited as Bishop II) with a piece of metal.

M1A1 Thompson with 30-round magazine - .45 ACP

M41A Pulse Rifle. The weapon pictured here is one of the actual screen-used pulse rifles from Alien³ - Note this prop has the black paintjob as seen in this film.

Weyland-Yutani operatives carry the M41A Pulse Rifle as they enter the prison facility.

A closeup of the M41A as they watch Ripley make her final plunge.

A Weyland-Yutani operative fires the M41A on Aaron. Note that the sound effect for the pulse rifle in this film is quite different to the sound effects used in Aliens. Whether this is intentional or not is unknown.

PFM-1

Two PFM-1 mines are carried on one of the commandos' sleeve.

PFM-1.

A commando with two PFM-1s on his sleeve.