“I call BS. You don’t need WiFi or cellular data to use your drone’s GPS features,”
Exactly right. It’s an RF datalink from the drone to your controller.
But maybe they wanted to send the video stream from the drone to the Unified Command Center? But wouldn’t they have their own local RF channels for doing that? Why would they depend on commercial cellular data?
StingRay cell-site simulators such as StingRays are widely used by law enforcement in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. The government can throw those up anywhere it wants.
“Exactly right. It’s an RF datalink from the drone to your controller.”
He was wrong. You are wrong.