TACPAD

Carter-A259 utilizing a forearm-mounted TACPAD.

The TACPAD is a piece of United Nations Space Command equipment. It is a hand-held tactical database system used for analyzing and displaying combat information. It is most often used by commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers in the UNSC military and can, among other functions, pull up maps of the local area and display images. It might be related to civilian data pads.

A dock for the MC5 Individual Data/Net Terminal was part of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Tactical accessory series. The somewhat-bulky casing was worn by Commander Carter-A259 during the Fall of Reach in August 2552.

Trivia

• The forearm-mounted dock for the TACPAD is available as an armor attachment in Halo: Reach. It is available for 50,000 cR in the Armory.
• The Spartan armor TACPAD texture file is called "spartan_forearm_tricorder", an obvious in-joke reference to Star Trek's sensing device.

Gallery

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  The TACPAD in Halo: Reach's armory.

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  A TACPAD from a first-person view in Halo: Reach.

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  Two views of the TACPAD

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  Extracted model of the TACPAD.

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  Extracted model of a similar-looking UGPS device.

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  Extracted model of Sorvad's arm computer.

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  Gregory Ramos viewing videos on his TACPAD in Halo: Nightfall.

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  Turpin using a MC5 ID/NT tacpad on Installation 00.

List of appearances

• Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
  • Palace Hotel (First appearance)
• Halo: Reach
• Halo: Mortal Dictata
• Halo: Nightfall
• Halo: Last Light
• Halo: Retribution
• Halo Infinite
• Saturn Devouring His Son