tactix 7 - Pro Ballistics Edition
Solar-powered tactical GPS watch with applied ballistics and nylon bandBUILT FOR THE MISSION
Featuring a Power Sapphire™ solar charging lens, traditional buttons and touchscreen display, multisport GPS smartwatch offers specialised tactical features as well as a built-in Applied Ballistics® calculator, mapping, music, advanced training features and more.
Get a charge from the sunlight, so your smartwatch can go as long as you can in the field.
Don’t be limited by battery life. Get up to 37 days of battery life1 in smartwatch mode.
Ruggedly built with a premium design that is built to military standards (MIL-STD-810).
Applied Ballistics Elite™ software enables you to calculate long-range shooting solutions in the field.
When it gets dark, the built-in LED flashlight helps keep you going.
Navigate your world with multi-GNSS satellite reference and outdoor sensors.
BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 37 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging enabled1 — and up to 122 hours in GPS mode with solar charging enabled5.
QUALITY BY DESIGN
Tested to U.S. military standards (MIL-STD-810), the rugged yet sophisticated design features a large 1.4" display.
TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
Traditional button controls that work in any environment are matched with a responsive new touchscreen interface for quick access to selections and functions.
APPLIED BALLISTICS ELITE SOFTWARE
Calculate aiming solutions for long-range shooting with a built-in ballistics calculator.
AB SYNAPSE™ - GARMIN APP
Easily create and send custom profiles to your Garmin device, including full access to the Applied Ballistics® Bullet Library, which contains more than 1,200 custom measured bullets.
BUILT-IN GREEN OR WHITE FLASHLIGHT
To help guide your way in low-light conditions, a built-in multi-LED flashlight provides quick access to a bright, steady beam in either green or white light.
NIGHT VISION CAPABILITY
Easily switch between daytime view and nighttime view with a screen that can be read by night vision goggles.
STEALTH MODE
While keeping the watch operational, stealth mode stops storing and sharing your GPS position and disables wireless connectivity and communication.
KILL SWITCH
If security becomes an issue, the kill switch wipes the device of all user memory.
DUAL-POSITION FORMAT
Easily sync your location with others by seeing both the universal transverse mercator and military grid reference system on the same screen.
PROJECTED WAYPOINTS
Set and save remote geo positions to be used later for navigation.
DIRECT-TO NAVIGATION
Navigate straight to a location or waypoint in the worldwide aeronautical database. Or choose the Nearest function to activate a path to a nearby airport.
WEATHER REPORTS
Access aviation weather, including NEXRAD radar, METARs and TAFs, to see winds, visibility, barometric pressure and more1.
JUMPMASTER MODE
This feature works to calculate high-altitude release points according to military guidelines and helps to navigate you to your objective once you’ve jumped.
HUNT ACTIVITY
Track your hunt, and mark hunt-specific waypoints directly on your watch.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing and more.
HIIT WORKOUTS
This activity profile tracks your high-intensity interval training workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.
DAILY WORKOUT SUGGESTIONS
For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily run and ride recommendations based on your current training load and training status.
VISUAL RACE PREDICTOR
Based on your running history and overall fitness level, this feature provides an estimate of what your pace could be for the distance you want to run. Trend data shows how your training is having an impact over time.
UP AHEAD
Get at-a-glance awareness for selected POI checkpoints ahead. View performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key trail points coming up.
PACEPRO TECHNOLOGY
A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
PERFORMANCE METRICS
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, trail run VO2 max, recovery advisor and more3.
REAL-TIME STAMINA
Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.
RECOVERY TIME ADVISOR
After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
MTB DYNAMICS
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised Grit™ and Flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.
CLIMBPRO FEATURE
Use the ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain — as well as descents and flats.
SURF READY FEATURES
Get ready to catch some waves. This tactix watch works with the Surfline Sessions™ feature, which creates a video of every wave you ride in front of a Surfline® camera4. So you can watch them later and see how you did with your Surfline Sessions subscription.
BACKCOUNTRY SKI
Stay informed when you’re in the snow. This preloaded profile helps distinguish between skiing and climbing. It shows metrics specific to either ascent or descent.
XC SKI DYNAMICS
When paired with the HRM-Pro™ chest strap (sold separately), the ski power metric helps measure the actual exercise load of your cross-country workouts.
MULTI-BAND GNSS SUPPORT
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo). Get access to multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites for improved position accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or typically don't penetrate.
ABC SENSORS
Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.
GOLF COURSE MAPS
Access full-colour CourseView maps for more than 42,000 golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature.
SKIVIEW MAPS
Take on the slopes with preloaded SkiView maps, and view run names and difficulty ratings for more than 2,000 ski resorts worldwide.
MULTICONTINENT TOPO MAPS
tactix® 7 – Pro Ballistics Edition comes preloaded with TopoActive maps from your region and gives you free access to download additional maps from around the world to keep your explorations on track. Use built-in Wi-Fi® connectivity to easily load and update maps and software without using a computer.
PUBLIC LAND BOUNDARIES
Optional display of federal public land boundaries on topographical maps helps you know that you’re venturing where you’re supposed to be.
POWER MANAGER
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Optical heart rate technology gauges activity intensity as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.
PULSE OX SENSOR
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox6 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.
BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING
Optimise your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.
RESPIRATION TRACKING
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep, and during breathwork and yoga activities.
HEALTH SNAPSHOT FEATURE
Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate3, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox6, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone to share.
HYDRATION TRACKING
Log daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. When auto goal is enabled, you’ll even see estimated sweat loss after an activity, and your goal will adjust accordingly.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
MUSIC APPS
Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming apps from your compatible services, including Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music, and listen through headphones with Bluetooth® technology.
GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection7.
CONNECT IQ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store on your compatible smartphone.
1 Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions.
2 When paired with a compatible smartphone.
4 When paired with the Garmin Connect™ smart device app and the Surfline smart device app.
5 Assumes continuous use for entire period in 50,000 lux conditions.
6 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
7 When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
General
Lens Material | Power Sapphire |
Bezel Material | Titanium |
Case Material | fiber-reinforced polymer with titanium rear cover |
QuickFit Watch Band Compatible | Included (26 mm) |
Strap material | Nylon & Silicone |
Physical Size |
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Touchscreen | |
Color Display | |
LED Flashlight | Yes (white/green) |
Display size | 1.4" (35.56 mm) diameter |
Display resolution | 280 x 280 pixels |
Display type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Weight |
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Battery life |
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Water Rating | 10 ATM |
Memory/History | 32GB |
Clock Features
Time/date | |
GPS Time Sync | |
Automatical daylight saving time | |
Alarm clock | |
Timer | |
Stopwatch | |
Sunrise/sunset times |
Health Monitoring
Wrist-based Heart Rate (Constant, Very Second) | |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
Respiration Rate (24x7) | |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
Fitness Age | Yes (in-app) |
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | |
All-Day Stress | |
Relaxation Reminders | |
Relaxation Breathing Timer | |
Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
Sleep score and insights | |
Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Women's Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Health Snapshot |
Sensors
GPS | |
GLONASS | |
Galileo | |
Multi-frequency positioning | |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
Barometric Altimeter | |
Compass | |
Gyroscope | |
Accelerometer | |
Thermometer | |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor |
Daily Smart Features
Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
On-device Connect IQ Store | |
Smart notifications | |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | |
Calendar | |
Weather | |
Battery Saver (customizable low power watch) | |
Controls smartphone music | |
Plays and controls watch music | |
Music Storage | Up to 2000 songs |
Find My Phone | |
Find My Watch | |
VIRB® REMOTE | |
Smartphone compatability | iPhone®, Android™ |
Pairs with Garmin Golf app | |
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
Garmin Pay™ |
Safety and Tracking Features
LiveTrack | |
Group LiveTrack | |
Live Event Sharing | |
Incident Detection during select activities | |
Assistance |
Tactical Features
Stealth Mode | |
Night Vision Mode | |
Dual Grid coordinates | |
Kill Switch |
Aviation Features
Worldwide Airport Database(s) | |
3-axis compass with HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator) | |
Multiple time zones with ZULU/UTC | |
NEXRAD on moving map | |
Moving map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more | |
Worldwide navaid and intersection database(s) | |
In-flight Pulse Ox | |
METAR (Meteorological aerodrome report) | |
TAF (Terminal aerodrome forecast) |
Activity Tracking Features
Step Counter | |
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | |
Calories burned | |
Floors climbed | |
Distance traveled | |
Intensity minutes | |
TrueUp™ | |
Move IQ™ | |
Garmin Connect™ Challenges App | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Gym & Fitness Equipment
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Cardio Workouts | |
Strength workouts | |
HIIT workouts | |
Yoga workouts | |
Pilates workouts | |
On-screen Workout Animations | |
Automatic rep counting |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
HR zones | |
HR alerts | |
HR calories | |
% HR Max | |
% HRR | |
Recovery time | |
Auto max HR | |
HRV Stress Test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
GPS speed and distance | |
Customisable data pages | |
Customisable activity profiles | |
Auto Pause® | |
Interval Training | |
Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) | |
Advanced Workouts | |
Downloadable training plans | |
Power Modes - Customizable in-activity battery settings | |
Auto Lap® | |
Manual lap | |
Rest timer | |
Configurable lap alerts | |
Heat and altitude acclimation | |
V02 Max (Run) | |
V02 Max (Trail Run) | |
Realtime stamina | |
Training status | |
Training load | |
Training load focus | |
Training effect | |
Training effect (anaerobic) | |
Primary benefit (Training effect labels) | |
Improved recovery time | |
Daily suggested workouts | |
Custom alerts | |
Audio prompts | |
Finish time | |
Virtual partner | |
Race an activity | |
Auto multisport activities | |
Manual multisport activities | |
Course guidance | |
Garmin live segments | |
Strava live segments | |
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) | |
Trendline popularity routing | |
Touch and/or button lock | |
Hot keys | |
Auto scroll | |
Activity history on watch | |
Physio TrueUp |
Running Features
Available run profiles |
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GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
Running dynamics | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Stride length (real time) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | |
Performance condition | |
Lactate threshold | yes (with compatible accessory) |
PacePro pacing strategies | |
Run workouts | |
Race predictor | |
Foot pod capable |
Golfing Features
Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide | |
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | |
Yardage to layups/doglegs | |
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
Digital scorecard | |
Custom targets | |
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | |
Garmin AutoShot™ | |
Full vector map | |
Auto courseview updates | |
Green View with manual pin position | |
Hazards and course targets | |
PinPointer | |
PlaysLike distance | |
Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point) | |
Handicap scoring | |
TruSwing compatible | |
Round timer/odometer | |
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | |
Tournament legal |
Outdoor Recreation Features
Available outdoor recreation profiles |
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Point-to-point navigation | |
Bread crumb in real time | |
Back to start | |
TracBack | |
Ultratrac mode | |
Around Me mode | |
Up Ahead | |
Elevation profile | |
Distance to destination | |
Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | |
ClimbPro ascent planner | |
Trail Run auto climb | |
Vertical speed | |
Total ascent/descent | |
Future elevation plot | |
Preloaded Topographical maps | |
Preloaded road and trail maps | |
Preloaded Ski Resort maps | |
Downloadable cartography support | |
Compatible with BaseCamp | |
GPS coordinates | |
Sight 'N Go | |
Area Calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Projected waypoint | |
Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Xero locations | |
Expedition GPS activity | |
Tides | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Cycling Features
Cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map) | |
Available cycling profiles |
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Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
Courses | |
MTB grit and flow | |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | |
Race an activity | |
FTP (functional threshold power) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Compatible with Vector and Rally (power meters) | |
Power meter compatible | |
Advanced cycling dynamics | |
Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display) | |
Compatible with Varia Radar (rear-facing radar) | |
Compatible with Varia lights | |
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) |
Swimming Features
Available swim profiles |
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Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (swolf), calories) | |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories) | |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | |
Drill logging (pool swim only) | |
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | |
"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | |
Auto rest (pool swim only) | |
Time and distance alerts | |
Pacing alerts (pool swim only) | |
Countdown start (pool swim only) | |
Pool swim workouts | |
Critical swim speed | |
Underwater wrist-based heart rate | |
Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | yes (with HRM-Tri™, HRM-Swim™ and HRM-Pro™) |
Kid Activity Tracking Features
Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Connectivity
Smart Trainer control |
In The Box
- tactix 7 – Pro Ballistics Edition, black DLC titanium with black nylon tactical band
- Black silicone watch band
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation