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After some snooping around at knowledgeable special forces sources I have some assumptions to confirm:

1. Night operations will never ever have all members of the team wearing night vision equipment. In most cases, it's not even the majority of the team that wears them. The reason is that depth perception is severely affected even with highly advanced night vision hardware. Usually the night vision equipment will be assigned to designated operators, while others will wear no such equipment.

2. GPS are never used regularly. Although always carried in the operators backpack or vest, it's highly uncommon to use it to reach the objective. GPS receivers are there mainly for... being lost. Operators learn the terrain and their objective before embarking on the mission and never rely on GPS for navigation which are used as backup.

(12-20-2016, 10:00 PM)Variable Wrote: [ -> ]2. GPS are never used regularly. Although always carried in the operators backpack or vest, it's highly uncommon to use it to reach the objective. GPS receivers are there mainly for... being lost. Operators learn the terrain and their objective before embarking on the mission and never rely on GPS for navigation which are used as backup.

That may be true, but for one, we aren't operators, and secondly, we don't have year long training. 

I know that in the German army, the team leader always has one. The team leader's harness has a front pouch that can be unzipped and it drops down into a 90 degree angle, like a small table attached to the wall. This pouch contains a tablet GPS receiver. The team leader can even draw on this tablet like we do on our maps, and the data is transmitted to other groups in the area, including vehicles.

Similar to this, though not quite, but you get the idea:

(12-21-2016, 02:08 AM)Varanon Wrote: [ -> ]That may be true, but for one, we aren't operators, and secondly, we don't have year long training. 

Well within the Armavese some of us have 15 years of experience, that's much more than many real life operators.
In any case, the point is that specop missions that lack this equipment are not less realistic because of it.