> Some soldiers have cheap walkie-talkies (literally commercial off the shelf cheap Chinese brands) Which need neither fiber optics nor cell towers. Baofengs

> Some soldiers have cheap walkie-talkies (literally commercial off the shelf cheap Chinese brands) Which need neither fiber optics nor cell towers. Baofengs aren't actually all that bad (they're not all that good either). Claiming that they are so poor they couldn't order a palletload of Baofengs is just so far beyond believable...