That is the real question. It's not a current military jet, that model was never used by the US military it was built for the British RAF..., but It is currently owned and operated by a British defense contractor, and by some reports was flying to a US Air Force base. So it is very relevant.
Delaware based company means nothing. Something like 90+% of companies in the US on paper are based in Delaware because of very corporate-friendly laws, and they can do business in the rest of the country just fine.
This particular company is the US portion of a British Defense Contractor.
It's owned by a company, a British Defense Contractor in this case. Pretty common for outdated military jets actually.
The Hawker Hunter is a WWII-era fighter jet. And the specific jet involved here seems to be registered to Hawker Hunter Aviation, a British defense contractor. So it's a "military jet" both by design and use. It's just not the US military.
My current Amazfit GTS 2 advertised a week, and I only get about 36 hours with heart rate every 15 minutes and sleep tracking overnight.
God do I miss the 30 day battery life. I misplaced my charger a bunch of times because I simply wasn't using it.
My current Amazfit barely gets a day with my usage. And I only use it for notifications and sleep tracking.
The editorialized title makes it sound like they made a decision and it wasn't because of a court order.
Actual article title: "Cloudflare cracks down on UK piracy – and VPN users are getting caught in the crossfire"
Not much better, but it is better than the OP's title.
I've still been trying to find good replacements for my Pebble. Long battery life, and just doing what it needs to without gimmicks or extra unnecessary crap. My watch doesn't need to be a mini phone, it's there to tell me if I need to bother with the actual phone.
Went through Vector and Amazfit since my OG Pebble and Pebble Time.
It's TCAS. The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System is an airborne system that helps pilots avoid mid-air collisions. It works independently of ground-based equipment by monitoring nearby aircraft with transponders and issuing advisories to pilots.
It basically negotiates between two planes and gives them opposing directions automatically so the pilots don't "avoid" each other by going the same direction.
This doesn't do anything. Rice absorbs water on contact, and even then requires heat to do so effectively. Rice does not work like the desiccant packets to reduce ambient humidity in a package.
Rice for any length of time is less effective than just using a paper towel to soak up and large drops externally and setting the phone in front of a fan for an hour.
I don't even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, it's a limited market.
Not an industry that I work in, but I know that older jets are often used for general training purposes.
For instance, NASA astronauts still train in T-38 Talons, originally built between 1961-1972. The Space Shuttle Trainers were a modified Gulfstream II, introduced in 1967, before they were retired in 2012 with the Shuttle program.
The first civilian orbital mission, the Inspiration4 crew trained in a MiG-29 which is privately owned by Jared Isaacman, who led the private mission launched by SpaceX back in 2021. The mission was a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, raising over $243 Million in donations. They also performed a number of experiments while in orbit for SpaceX, the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine and investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. Studies specifically intended to see the effects of orbital flight on ordinary citizens that weren't previously screened and exhaustively trained as professional astronauts.
Older fighter jets are still good for training things at supersonic speeds, real world G forces, etc. that simulators can't reproduce perfectly.