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Cik -> RE: Air strikes beyond loadout range (10/9/2016 5:52:47 AM)
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it's automatic, depending on the configure tab you can set how it will work out.
changeable settings include:
% of mission fuel aircraft will start looking for gas at (will move to tanker track and enter refuel queue)
which tanker it will hit (choose a certain one or one assigned to a certain mission)
whether it will do it at all
out of the box settings work OK; generally aircraft that are stressing their fuel will do a pre-ingress refuel, head to the target, attack, then fly home direct. if you are going REALLY far then they will also need a post-egress refuel before heading home to base.
if you have enough tankers you can quite literally have a global range, just as in real life. you just have to make very certain that your aircraft will always have tankers nearby, esp. the short-legged ones like F-16s. if there's ever a break in the "tanker string" they can easily run out of fuel and have to ditch the plane.
edit: by the way if you're not using missions and microing the plane yourself there's a refuel at tanker option in the unit orders tab at the top that will achieve the same thing as the mission autorefuel.
edit2: maybe i should actually read the OP
as long as the AI craft are assigned to a mission and they are within tactical range of the tanker (something that varies depending on the aircraft, i believe) they will AAR to extend range / loiter time automatically when they reach the percentage of mission fuel they are set to seek the tanker at. generally if it's a strike they will fly their mission steerpoints (usually a ~straight line) until they reach % of mission fuel (default 65%?) and then hit the tanker, continue in, strike and if they don't have enough reserve fuel to reach home plate AAR again on the way out. if they are NOT assigned to a mission i think they may AAR anyway, due to inherited doctrine, but i'm not 100% on that.
personally if you're doing a scenario i'd just have them assigned to a mission and it will work out, unless that's not possible for some reason?
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