To stay polite as Sens would say 😉 why would you make such a statement based on the evidence? We have the radar track and the Turks themselves say the helicopter was at 14,200 feet!

….and even if the Syrians were mad enough to do that (and they’re not!) there are better ways of deploying CW than simply throwing cannisters of chemical agents from a Mi-17 helicopter at 14,000 feet!

And you consider this mad scheme to deliver CW at this height 3 miles up chucked out from a helicopter possible and a “real threat”?! And why would the Syrians cross the border into Turkey to wage chemical warfare in full glare of the world?

I don’t think the Syrian regime are responsible for the major chemical attack, and I don’t think that particular MI17 was taking part in such actions. I was merely pointing out that there is video evidence on the internet of an MI17 dropping chemical agents onto rebels, and so an MI17 can be counted as a credible threat.

Surely, a regular flightpath could be used until the last possible minute, and then the helicopter diverted to a target?

I’m not taking sides, just pointing out that there may have been reasons that aren’t immediately obvious to us.

it is more productive if china and taiwan forces work together to destroy japan or vietnam instead.

Do you understand what the word ‘productive’ means?

Whatever they had as professionals like every police-man they had to follow rules or become criminals themselves. The Turkish radar tracking showed they did not follow rules bound to peace-time. That Mi-17 in question never posed a real threat as the Turkish radar tracking showed. In the case of the F-4RF before the situation was much different.

Theres video evidence of Syrian forces dropping canisters of chemical agents from an MI-17, I would class that as a “real threat”.

No

It was also nice to see the museum site hosting a wedding, I hope the happy couple enjoyed their day!

They absolutely loved it. Everyone commented on what a great venue it is for a wedding. I’m up at 4am to take the happy couple to another airfield – Leeds Bradford 😀

The York Evening Press will be printing an article this week on the wedding, which will hopefully be a great advertisement for the museum.

Considering F35 has never been tested in combat, or even mock combat against a Rafale, you’re making a lot of assumptions. Rafale is a relic of a bygone age, F35 was designed for the kind of conflicts that are common today.