A standard infantry platoon has many, many methods of communication even up to data access for dismounted troops. This kind of radio was basic, barebones, sometimes barely worked at all, especially in a dense urban environment. My PLT didn’t have these exact radios (we used ICOMs for this task), but the principle is the same. We actually weren’t allowed to say anything particularly sensitive over these radios due to their comparatively insecure crypto.
The radio in the article was just an example because it was in a photograph,
The radios and encryption devices we worried about were far more advanced than regular infantry carried.
Nonetheless, they seem to be taking over advanced and massive amounts military equipment, along with the bank vaults.
They are becoming for the first time, a true terrorist Army.