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Originally Posted by The Colonel
Wouldn't that put a huge electronic warfare burden on the forces using this sort of software/firmware? Not only is signals silence going to be completely rodgered by its incontinent use of the comms systems, but presumably if you jam it, the user starts being spammed with system errors...
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If you use "Military Grade" the same way classic Cyberpunk does, you'll almost certainly need similar hard/software to counter it, unless you're a prodigy who could hack [insert super secure facility] with a TI-81.
For more realistic "Military Grade", modern vehicles with moderately advanced computer systems already phone home on a near constant basis. A spec-ops team might have custom software that doesn't call home at specific intervals, but it seems more likely to me that a team that needs to go completely radio silent will not have any custom hard/software at all. Or if they do, it will likely be a competitor's/rival nation's products in an attempt at misdirection (and preserving trade/state secrets).
Wireless signal jamming requires a large amount of power if you want to cover an area larger than a single house, and you'd also be jamming your own communications in the same frequency band. Which would mean little if the team is using a different band to communicate. Heck, if there's a geo-location service that reliably covers the area, the offensive team could just work with the same type of communication (maybe even try to hide in the geo-location data stream). Of course, once the offensive team is inside a facility the defenders do get an advantage in this field. But that would still be the case without software that calls home every x hours.