Who said it evaporates really quickly and who said what form it was applied in?

Where are you getting the information about powder/injected/aerosol from?

Porton Down has already confirmed that it was Novichok (confirmed by OPCW) and the investigation has confirmed it was applied to the door handle of their home.

He was a defector, Putin hates betrayal (said so in video), Russian Intelligence had hacked into their e-mail since 2013. Classified intelligence also showed the Russians had tested delivery methods including door handles. Other than a signed confession from Putin, I don’t see what more evidence they actually need.

The jury is still out on the assassination of Rasputin though.

The problem with giving the benefit of the doubt on Skirpal poisoning, is the Litvinenko poisoning that preceded it and the Yuschenko poisoning in Ukraine before that. That’s one hell of a string of coincidences, and for me, RT spent a little too long defending the allegations, which had the effect of giving off the smell of guilt.

In the Syria incident, the OPCW were denied access for 2 weeks, citing security reasons. The US/UK/FR attack hasn’t changed the course of the war and it wasn’t intended to, so a false pretext to achieve nothing seems pointless and unlikely.

F-22 carries 8 AAMs and the F-35 4 (likely 6 within 6-10 years).

I would expand the F-22’s bays a little and have 8 AMRAAMs and 4 Aim-9x.

Kinematics is more than just maneuverability, but speed & range too. The F135 engine can be mated to the 2D nozzle just fine.

Think basic F-22 airframe with a little tweaking (slightly larger weapon bays) with the F-35’s avionics and engines.

I would honestly scrap the 2D vectoring and perhaps lose weight and add a little extra fuel. Same-sized weapon bays as F-22, F-35 low maintenance skins, YF-120 engines, F-35 EODAS with IRST incorporated into frontal EODAS aperture (or all if possible). F-35 sensor fusion and expanded EW with GaN version of F-22 radar and side arrays. A2A load of 6xMBDA/Mitsubishi AESA Meteor and 2xAIM-9X2 or updated ASRAAM.

I would say, “yes”. They have no carrier, so the other two seem pointless. Very interested in this F-22/35 hybrid they’ve been offered though.

they had to.. Charles De Gaulle is still in repairs if I’m not mistaken so they could not launch from it

I thought I heard something about some using US carriers though.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/french-rafale-fighters-to-embark-on-us-carrier/

The thing is that with the Typhoon you need 8 of them to launch eight Storm Shadow (with 2 EFT each) or four of them with only one belly EFT and then i think it becomes a nightmare in term of refuelling, so it’s easiest to use the old Tornado GR4…

Have you seen where RAF Akrotiri is in relation to Syria? If the missile could be ground launched, you wouldn’t even need a plane at all, never mind IFR.

Most likely the 10 th scalp did not initialized as expected or its auto diagnostic return a fail at time of launch and ultimately was jettisoned . On return all aircrafts had no ordnance left. Make sens given the distance and refuelling to go through to get rid of it rather that risk a return with an asymmetrical draggy dude. So for once the redundancies were used.

Or some or all were Rafale Ms, which only carry 1 on centreline for roll stability reasons.