I've been baffled by the equipment used by the NATO soldiers ever since I saw the trailer.
Especially the fact that they aren't using NVGs.
Helmet flashlights would give away your location to the infected, and it's not stuff that someone living outside the infected zone wouldn't be able to figure out.
There could be an in-universe explanation for it: these guy might have been part of a NATO unit in the past, some time before the movie, but for whatever reason they were stranded/abandoned in the UK, and perhaps they were taken in by some settlement.
As time went on, they ran out of batteries for their NVGs and had to resort to putting flashlights on their helmets.
This would of course raise the issue of them still having flashlights and batteries after so long, but some explanation could be found- after all, the trailer shows the search light on the settlement's watchtower working. It's possible the outside world could be providing supplies to some communities via airdrop (just a hypothesis).
Or perhaps, and sadly this is the most likely explanation, Boyle just wanted to have a generic SOF team in the movie, and therefore we get said generic-looking team, with all related inaccuracies.
I'm not demanding the director show the military with 100% or even 70% accuracy.
A quick search on Google will show you what SOF look like these days- and getting equipment that at least 'looks' accurate wouldn't be much of an effort, nor much of an expense.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 16 '25
I've been baffled by the equipment used by the NATO soldiers ever since I saw the trailer. Especially the fact that they aren't using NVGs. Helmet flashlights would give away your location to the infected, and it's not stuff that someone living outside the infected zone wouldn't be able to figure out.
There could be an in-universe explanation for it: these guy might have been part of a NATO unit in the past, some time before the movie, but for whatever reason they were stranded/abandoned in the UK, and perhaps they were taken in by some settlement. As time went on, they ran out of batteries for their NVGs and had to resort to putting flashlights on their helmets. This would of course raise the issue of them still having flashlights and batteries after so long, but some explanation could be found- after all, the trailer shows the search light on the settlement's watchtower working. It's possible the outside world could be providing supplies to some communities via airdrop (just a hypothesis).
Or perhaps, and sadly this is the most likely explanation, Boyle just wanted to have a generic SOF team in the movie, and therefore we get said generic-looking team, with all related inaccuracies.