F-22 Raptors based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will also have difficulty responding to Russian air incursions, as they have done in the past, if the Iskander ballistic missile system were deployed to the Russian Far East. The Iskander is a mobile missile system capable of targeting aircraft and launching nuclear-armed missiles at targets up to 300 miles away.

Uh…what? Since when could a ballistic missile system “target[] aircraft”?