- Equiped with sensors that give advantages to units within wide area around: increase weapons' precision and damage, reduce damage done to units. (Targeting Sensor must be on for this.)
- Equiped with detection devices to spot enemy troops from afar, even those trying to infiltrate.
- VERY GOOD at detecting infiltrated units (longest range).
- The Hyperios Command Platform is a variant of the Tarantula Sentry Turret that replaces its standard weaponry with an advanced tracking Auspex and command relay system. This variant can be used in conjunction with the Hyperios Sentry Turrets, usually as part of a battery, and gives any Hyperios Sentry Turrets tethered to it higher degrees of accuracy.
- Increases accuracy of frag and krak Hyperios missiles. Increases range of Hyperios frag missiles.
- Can make a map of a big portion of the battlefield.