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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?
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
Published: 17:23 GMT, 3 November 2015 | Updated: 18:17 GMT, 3 November 2015
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.
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The Defense Department is shipping up to a dozen of these Boeing F-15C fighter jets to Turkey to protect US warplanes operating over neighboring Syria
The twin-engine F-15Cs have air-to-air missile capability only
The Pentagon announced the shipment late last week, and a Defense Department spokeswoman told The Daily Beast the planes are intended to 'ensure the safety' of America's NATO allies.
The spokeswoman, Laura Seal, added, 'I didn't say it wasn't about Russia.'
Other possible tasks for the warplanes could be patrolling the Turkish border with Syria, as Syrian planes sometimes cross into Turkey. Or they could be used to protect U.S. planes with air-to-ground missiles that are striking ISIS targets.
Russia has been operating fighter patrols in Syria for about a month, but Defense officials believe they are intended to battle the anti-Syrian rebels which the U.S. is supporting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Obama in late September at the United Nations in New York that he doesn't distinguish between ISIS forces and the rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A meeting last month between Assad and Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow did little to dissuade that viewpoint, as the two men were all smiles for photographers.
Russia's own shipment of warplanes to Syria also raised concerns for the same reason - they are primarily aerial fighters as well, Su-30 fighter jets. Since ISIS has no planes of its own, the mission of the planes was ambiguous at best.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow on Oct. 20
F-15C fighter jets are exclusively used for air-to-air combat needs, and carry a variety of cannons and missiles
A Defense Department official said the U.S. is 'thickening' its presence in the skies over the Turkey-Syria border, where there is already a variety of U.S. fighters, attack planes and bombers operating.
That includes jets such as the F-16 and bombers like the A-10 and B-1s.
The Defense official cautioned, however, that there are still no definite plans to establish a 'no-fly zone over Syria, which would be complicated now anyway with Russia's presence.
Aerial-only fighter planes haven't been used in the most recent U.S. military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan, as there were no no-fly zones or air-to-air needs in those countries. Rather, the U.S. air forces were focused on bombing and striking militants on the ground..
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