I know this topic has been discussed before, however, with the new aircraft flight time update, I think it would be good to revise and improve the idea.
Before the update, aircraft flight time is unlimited, and the discussion of tankers only increases the range. Now, it might also extend the aircrafts' flight time.
Solution 1
-A tanker can increase the flight time of aircrafts to unlimited, and its range remains unchanged
Solution 2
-A tanker can both increase the flight time and the range of the aircraft. Extending it by itself, e.g. An F-35 has a range of 900, positioning the tanker at 500 from the air base the F-35 is in can increase its range to (900+500)1450.
Details of an aircrafts' hoook-up to the tanker:
The tanker will have a patrol radius of 100. Any friendly (yourself+allied) aircraft will be refueled in that radius, and can continue to its destination.
Tanker_concept_1.png<That has a bad quality sorry
A second (less complicated) solution will be to stack the tanker with the planes.
Overall I believe that this will make the game better after the update.
*Planes will still have to RTB to rearm.
Unit detail:
Before the update, aircraft flight time is unlimited, and the discussion of tankers only increases the range. Now, it might also extend the aircrafts' flight time.
Solution 1
-A tanker can increase the flight time of aircrafts to unlimited, and its range remains unchanged
Solution 2
-A tanker can both increase the flight time and the range of the aircraft. Extending it by itself, e.g. An F-35 has a range of 900, positioning the tanker at 500 from the air base the F-35 is in can increase its range to (900+500)1450.
Details of an aircrafts' hoook-up to the tanker:
The tanker will have a patrol radius of 100. Any friendly (yourself+allied) aircraft will be refueled in that radius, and can continue to its destination.
Tanker_concept_1.png<That has a bad quality sorry
A second (less complicated) solution will be to stack the tanker with the planes.
Overall I believe that this will make the game better after the update.
*Planes will still have to RTB to rearm.
Unit detail:
Tiers/Doctrines | Western | European | Eastern |
Tier 1 | KC-135 | A310MRTT | Tu-16N |
Tier 2 | KC-10 | A400M | Il-78 |
Tier 3 | KC-46 | A330MRTT | No idea |
TANKERS
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