JMA

Bowman is not too bad in the HF, VHF and UHF roles as a radio. Data has been a complete busted flush and has never worked outside Salisbury plain
But. TBH. I suspect that it's mostly MoD's fault messing around with perfectly good systems for the hell of it. Paying to removing GPS cards from within the VHF systems to then waste money on attached GPS systems or taking a HF/VHF radio and removing the VHF facility as 2 examples

There is weight that can be removed, 5kgs can be slimmed down quite quickly

If you're in CEFO+daysack order on a day time patrol why do you need the full commanders kit of Orders cards, TAMS, model kit and all the night sights ? You're not going to be giving any more orders with a model and you should be able to get away with HMNVS as a just in case. The G4 chain should be able to bring up equipment as required, otherwise you might as well carry everything "Just In Case"

The TI and HMNVS has proved useful. Helped me PID a firing point at night and engage with GPMG from a sanger one night and has allowed us to pretty much move at will at night.......