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 * Source
 * Death by Chemicals - The Syrian Government’s Widespread and Systematic Use of Chemical Weapons - HRW, May 1, 2017

Discussion
Air dropped, does it say? Like the OFAB-250? no propulsion at all? Because the jets the US tracked never flew remotely above that crater, according to the flight track they published. Graphic in a moment. And reviewing Postol's case for a non-fired crater cause (ground IED bending the pipe?) I agreed with Petri it looks like a fired rocket, which frequently burrow in like that and bend. This one had green paint, seems designed to split, and might have dispersed a chemical. I don't think it can possibly be air dropped, nor this alleged weapon, unless it was re-jiggered to be fired as a rocket. And I think it was fired from the north-northwest. Consistent with KhAB? Not in any meaningful sense like HRW implies. --Caustic Logic (talk) 09:56, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Here's the graphic, method explained on the file page. You can see how either the track or map is wrong, or that jet can't have dropped anything in that crater. It might have fired it in, but of course I doubt that too. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:34, 3 May 2017 (UTC)