So to cut a long story short, I complained about the article to the DT citing the various points that we had all no doubt noticed.
After a couple of replies back and forth I received the following from the editorial standards team today:
"An opinion article of 9 Jan ("If the RAF can't drop food to Madaya in Syria, we shouldn't bother having an air force at all") illustrated its argument that airlifts would be unchallenging by reference to occasions when Israeli jets have bombed sites in Syria without losses from Syrian surface to air missiles. We accept that this could have been misleading, given that the Hercules aircraft envisaged by the article for such airlifts would face a higher risk from all Syrian defences than the jet aircraft used in earlier Israeli raids. We have therefore removed the article from the site."
Success!
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