Whoever paid for that grenade doesn't trust the soldier / mercenary they gave it to very far, that's why the network connection exists in the first place, hackers can exploit that.
At least that's the reason I just made up.
At least that's the reason I just made up.
(This kind of cyberpunk dystopia is very plausible from the intersection of military contracting grift and lowest-bidder IoT design!)
And then converted the landmines to remote-operated as part of a legal fiction about victim-operated devices. Which is the military version of the concern about robots taking jobs: to what extent is it acceptable to have munitions making their own decisions about taking lives?
Anyway, in the Shadowrun universe you'd definitely be able to hack the mesh network of landmines.
The US allegedly has something like this for MANPADS missiles given to not-so-trusted allies.
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10642-harry_potter_and_the_not-s...
Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control… everything is monitored and kept under control.
War… has changed.