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Here's more useful background. Back in 2018, SkyCope, which makes drone detection and jamming devices, won an injunction against one of their founders who split off to found a competing company.[1] Later, two competing companies. He also founded Pegauni.[2] This seems to be a follow-on of that dispute.

Back in 2018, small drones were not much of a national security issue. Now, they are.

[1] https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-anti-dron...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240202225640/https://pegauni.c...



That background leaves out the fact that Skycope itself is literally owned by a (different) Chinese company, so I doubt this is a follow-on of that in any straightforward sense.

> [188] Skycope submits that it and its parent companies have suffered detriment by being forced into extensive litigation in China and that Bluvec and Lizheng’s entry into the market has harmed Skycope and Shengkong’s market position in China. ...

> [222] ... Similarly, there is no evidence that Skycope (including its parent, Shengkong) operates outside of Canada and China.

https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2023/2023bcsc1288/2023...


They're not very subtle about what they are doing,

https://web.archive.org/web/20240105144551/https://pegauni.c... ("Customers")

- "Military/National Security Projects"

- "Macau Battleship"

- "Chinese National Parade"

- "Chinese Air Craft Carrier (No Pictures due to security reasons)"

- "National Security Beijing"

- "Military Base Security"




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