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"Anything stuck with enough needles will blow sky high—and if a Foxtrot is unlucky enough to be carrying grenades, those are gonna cook off too."

- Anonymous serviceman

Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher (T-33 GML), also known as the Needler, is the United Nations Space Command's type classification for six distinct patterns of a Covenant needle-based infantry automatic weapon. Although the six distinct patterns of the needlers possessed aesthetic and functional differences, their shared UNSC type designation suggests that they were all catalogued and classified in 2533.

Nahle'hax-pattern needle launcher
The Nahle'hax-pattern needle launcher is designated as T-33 GML. It has multiple known chassis. This variant was commonly employed by the Covenant and its remnants.

Battle of Installation 04 pattern
This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory.

Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by an additional handguard around the grip between the cowlings. It also possesses a longer handguard extending from the lower cowling, though, unlike other needlers with this attribute, the handguard is angled downwards rather than curving upwards.

Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed during the Battle of Installation 04 by the forces deployed from the Fleet of Particular Justice. It was particularly popular among Special Operations Unggoy combating the Flood.

Battle of Installation 05 pattern
This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory.

Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by upper and lower cowlings of congruent lengths.

Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed by the forces deployed from the Fleet of Sacred Consecration during the Battle of Mombasa and Battle of Installation 05. Members of Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction, especially the Unggoy, favored this needler pattern as well.

Truth's fleet pattern
This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory. It was nicknamed Pinkies and Shrimp Shooter.

Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by upper and lower cowlings of congruent lengths. In addition, there are purple light fixtures around the barrel and its adjoining channel braces.

Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed by the forces deployed from the Prophet of Truth's fleet during the Battle of Voi and the Battle of Installation 00

Trivia

 * Instead of each needle on top of the Needler being pushed separately into the gun with each shot, every needle sinks into the weapon slightly for each shot fired. In Halo: Reach, a needle sinks into the weapon every time one is fired.
 * It's never been shown how the Needler is reloaded, as ammunition is never seen being plugged into the weapon. Pressing the "reload" command merely causes the needles to extend from the holes, with no other action from the wielder's model. Grunts carrying the Needler may occasionally tap and shake the weapon as if to reload it.
 * On the level Quarantine Zone in Halo 2, there is a lone Sentinel that fires Needler rounds and drops a Needler when it is destroyed.
 * In Halo 3, regardless of how many needles are loaded in the weapon, none will appear in the Needler's shadow.
 * Bungie.net's Halo 3 statistics page claims that the Needler has thirty needles per magazine instead of the actual nineteen.
 * In Halo 3, killing five enemies with a Needler, in a ranked free-for-all match or campaign will reward the player with the Fear the Pink Mist achievement. In Halo 3: ODST, killing ten Covenant soldiers with an explosion from the Needler in a single-player level or in Firefight will reward the player with the Pink and Deadly achievement. In Halo: Reach the player earns the A Spoonful of Blamite achievement for killing ten enemies with Needler explosions. Killing an opponent with a super-combine of the Needler's needles will grant the player a Super Detonation Medal in Halo 3, Needler Kill Medal in Halo 3: ODST and a Needle Combine Kill Medal in Halo: Reach.
 * In Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the Needler is referred to as a pistol. This may be because in the large hands of a Sangheili, it seems proportionally smaller.
 * In Halo: Combat Evolved level 343 Guilty Spark and the Halo 2 Vista map Uplift are the only levels to feature Needler ammunition outside the Needler.
 * When using Anniversary mode in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, dropped Needlers are always depicted as either being fully loaded or empty with no middle ground. However, when playing Classic mode, the number of needles can be seen indicating how many remained in the clip prior to the weapon being picked up.
 * In the video Enemy Weapon at 0:22 in left side of the screen is a Type-33 Needler in a glass case with needles still visible on the weapon, indicating that it is still loaded.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach
 * Halo: Combat Evolved
 * Halo: The Flood
 * Halo: First Strike
 * Halo 2
 * Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
 * Believe
 * Enemy Weapon
 * Halo 3
 * Halo: The Cole Protocol
 * Halo Wars
 * Halo: Helljumper
 * Halo 3: ODST
 * Halo Legends
 * Homecoming
 * Halo: Blood Line
 * Halo: Reach


 * Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
 * Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops
 * Halo: Spartan Assault
 * Halo: Initiation
 * Halo: Escalation
 * Halo: Broken Circle
 * Halo 2: Anniversary
 * Hunt the Truth
 * Halo: Spartan Strike
 * Halo: Last Light
 * Halo Mythos
 * Halo: Collateral Damage
 * Halo: Fireteam Raven
 * Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual
 * Halo: Battle Born
 * Halo: Renegades
 * Halo: Outpost Discovery
 * Halo: Meridian Divide
 * Halo: Shadows of Reach
 * Halo: The Television Series
 * Homecoming
 * Reckoning
 * Transcendence