Lone Survivor Comm problems

[Singlestack]

I hear ya, and that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the answer was "it was the best they could do at the time". These days I would think they would have a few redundant and reliable comm systems, including a high-altitude drone overhead acting as a repeater.

[rbeau30]

I hear ya, and that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the answer was "it was the best they could do at the time". These days I would think they would have a few redundant and reliable comm systems, including a high-altitude drone overhead acting as a repeater.

If they were special forces I guarantee they did. But just regular infantry? Us up in the north had virtually nothing. Every vehicle had LoS comms, but even the beer can sat antennas that would allow you to hit a satellite we hade very few but it was a directional antenna so you had to be stopped. The x-wings which were more omni-directional satcom antennas we only had two. so...