Yep although making the helicopter aware of position will require comms from the unit albeit perhaps a single burst though in at least some combat situations the pick-up point is fluid due to pursuit by enemy forces which thus requires repeated bursts.

And in fact at least special forces already carry such equipment which they can enable at the point of distress giving a good balance between risk of exposure and recoverability.

Although I agree that within the unit itself the relevance of the technology is more limited.

In the case of Java one can argue that deployment is the only way to test effectiveness but:

(1) There should be some plan for removing features that fail in such a deployment - deprecation doesn’t count as it takes too long. I’m talking rollback for want of a better term.

(2) There should be some appropriate datapoints to justify the deployment - too many times we accept subjective arguments backed by zero critical thinking which for our profession is surely unacceptable.