Nice strawman.
No it's called sarcasm in pointing our your flawed logic where you assume DT is able to verify "ex-military". I do not doubt for a second there are ex-military on DT. The problem with your claims is that there is no way to determine if the members who commented on AusAirDefence article are ex-military and if they are verified ex-military by DT which itself is a fallible organisation that can get these things wrong and have no reason to be accurate or honest.
On top of this, you also failed to address the bigger issue which is how do we know ex-military are right and know anything about the topic? Grunts are often extreme failures within US society. They are also often just above morons in IQ. Even IF I consider DT ex-military comments made for AAD is true, how do we even begin to evaluate their opinions? People who can barely get through high school let alone understand even the most basic physics concepts.
Anyway I won't comment further on this. DT as some authority is HILARIOUS. Mostly morons who don't know the first thing about anything technical. There are like 10 members who are barely technically literate. The rest is political jingoism and propagating racist attitudes. It is the exact same crowd as F-16.net and TDW where 90% are morons who repeat racist attitudes and repeat soundbytes that have long been debunked and proven false beyond any doubt. I mean only 15 years ago this is the same crew said China would never ever be able to even make a flying aircraft themselves, despite that already being false back then.