Yeah just noticed it's not all that new. New to me. I have one of those SDR dongles somewhere I messed about with ages ago, seems like a few steps away from that.
Essentially a long range Walkie talkie. It’s hard to imagine a situation where you need one, You also need a team of people you are communicating with, And in that case it would be useful in a civil war context where regular uneducated people were killing each other. Intelligence services could still pick up your frequency and intercept communications. Interesting stuff though.