Fighter planes the Obama administration is deploying to Turkey can’t drop bombs – so are they meant for dogfights with the Russians?

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Fighter planes the Obama administration is deploying to Turkey can’t drop bombs – so are they meant for dogfights with the Russians?

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  • Pentagon shipping up to a dozen F-15C jets that can only fire air-to-air missiles
  • ISIS has no fighter planes, meaning the planes’ real target may be Russian jets that are operating over Turkey and Syria
  • Defense Department: US ‘thickening’ its presence in the skies over the Turkey-Syria border

By J. TAYLOR RUSHING, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The Obama administration is sending a group of fighter planes to Turkey equipped with air-to-air missiles, raising concerns that the jets are really intended to battle Russian planes.
The Pentagon plans to ship up to a dozen Boeing F-15C Eagle twin-engine planes to a base in Incirlik which the Turkish government has allowed the U.S. to use in its effort against the Islamic State.
The base is near the country’s border with Syria.
But since the F-15C has no air-to-ground capability, their real mission may be to protect other U.S. warplanes from those of Russia or Syria, according to The Daily Beast……more here

 

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