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>There really is no good in-universe reason the UNSC didn't at least come up with basic infantry plasma weapons of their own during Halo 3's story.
They were getting their ass kicked while already on full war footing and didn't have the time and resources it would have taken them to construct the required infrastructure to mass produce them?

You're assuming that just because you understand how something works you know how to re-create it on your own. Maybe they do discover a new alloy but they have no idea how to make it outside of a lab, or they can produce it but can't make it in large enough amounts to matter, or it's prohibitively expensive, or requires too many rare materials, because the Covenant has a much more efficient manufacturing process that you know nothing about, or you can do all of that but building the factory and refining the process would take 10-15 years and by that time you'll all be dead and turned to glass. All for one part of a single branch of Covenant technology that wouldn't even help you that much since small arms are not the reason you're losing the war. Not to mention the huge costs associated with building up an entirely new production chain and all of its associated infrastructure and logistics. All for something that will again, at best, make you lose slightly slower than you already are.

Of course the UNSC was trying to reverse Covenant tech, but its a long way from "We understand how this plasma pistol works" to creating something that's both practical and useful to war effort.

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