Gangsters using drones to spread swine fever, run scams

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Gangsters using drones to spread swine fever, run scams

The Chinese gangsters using drones to spread African swine fever – The China Project

Chinese gangsters who are part of “swine stir fry syndicates” are using drones to spread African swine fever, according to Chinese state media, scaring farmers into selling their animals at a discount before trafficking these sick pigs across province lines and selling them in “clean” areas.

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It's an arms race over there, according to the South China Morning Post.

A Chinese pig farm’s attempt to ward off drones – said to be spreading African swine fever – jammed the navigation systems of a number of planes flying overhead.
The farm, in northeastern China, was ordered last month to turn in an unauthorised anti-drone device installed to prevent criminal gangs dropping items infected with the disease, according to online news portal Thepaper.cn.
The device came to light after a series of flights to and from Harbin airport complained about losing GPS signals while flying over Zhaozhou county in Heilongjiang in late October. In some cases, the ADS-B tracking technology – which determines an aircraft’s position via satellite navigation – failed.