The more expensive midlands are about 5 watts but they just dont hold up in the field and the RX and selectivity is crap.
Some of the motorola do about 2 watts and they seem to hold up better than anything and are less susceptible to interference.
We use these for work in the most **** up conditions, and I learned
#1 toss the batteries they came with, dont matter if its nimh or nicd, or how vigilantly you keep em charged they dont last longer than a few minutes
#2 AAA batteries are extra hassle when everything else runs on AA
#3 nothing sucks more than being 400 feet up a tower and some kid thinks its fun to mess with you. Use a PL tone, shuts the kids, schools and b.s. up, kid jammers think you cant hear them, because you cant hear them and pay them any mind and they quickly give up
#4 baofeng, woxun, TYT, etc stomps on the blister pack radios