In the dark jungle, forty soldiers stood holding their rifles.
Under the moonlight, their outlines could vaguely be seen. All of them wore specially made tactical helmets fitted with mounting brackets. Two small devices hung from those brackets: one was a low-light night-vision scope, and the other was thermal imaging equipment.
The technology for these things had existed for a long time; it was merely a matter of development. When it came to high-end, compact integration, the technical standards were indeed insufficient. They could be made small, but they consumed too much power, exposed their users' positions, produced unclear images, and so on—there were problems everywhere. To that end, the genius Comrade Wang Yan buried himself in books and humbly consulted and discussed matters with experts and professors. In the process, he unconsciously and casually raised a few ideas, and eventually, a small batch of finished products was manufactured.
It was in thermal-imaging technology that Wang Yan's flashes of genius earned particular admiration from the experts and professors. Compared with Europe, America, and the Soviet Union, their thermal-imaging technology lagged behind by more than a decade. Wang Yan's brilliant ideas solved quite a few key problems...
At the same time, compact wireless communication modules had been added to the helmets, allowing everyone on the same channel to speak freely. This was not especially difficult; specialized helmets for tank and armored troops had already used such technology. Tanks were noisy inside, making communication difficult, so it had been developed to solve that practical problem.
The difficulty lay in power, efficiency, and encryption. There were still many shortcomings in those areas. But shortcomings depended on the opponent. Against the Vietnamese monkeys, there was no major issue.
In fact, during the earlier Sino-Vietnamese War, the Vietnamese army had deliberately intercepted Chinese military radio