Of a flight of 4 KC-135, only the flight lead is used by AI to refuel. The other 3 KC-135 remain unused.

[Buzzer1977]

Of a flight of 4 KC-135 (Texaco-1-1 to Texaco-1-4, only the flight lead (Texaco-1-1) is used by AI to refuel. The other 3 KC-135 remain unused. I created a mission with 6 F-15 (2e, 4c), and 8 F-16bl50, all low on fuel and with Perform refuel as task. They only use Texaco-1-1 until the "2nd AC to refuel crashes" or the "refueling AC is hung beneath the tanker"bugs strike.

Only1-KC-135-of4-is-used.trk

[Grimes]

I don't think aircraft that provide services like AWACS, JTAC, and tankers are meant to work with multiple aircraft per flight. As it stands its known the AI always go to the closer tanker to refuel and I'm not sure if that is also at play here or AI just dont know how to react with multiple tankers in the formation. Just due to how formations work currently I could see how problems might arise. 

[Buzzer1977]

On 7/23/2021 at 4:55 AM, Grimes said:

I don't think aircraft that provide services like AWACS, JTAC, and tankers are meant to work with multiple aircraft per flight. As it stands its known the AI always go to the closer tanker to refuel and I'm not sure if that is also at play here or AI just dont know how to react with multiple tankers in the formation. Just due to how formations work currently I could see how problems might arise. 

Then it's a bug in the mission editor that some tankers can have more the one AC per flight.

But anyhow, refueling seems to be quite broken in current open beta ...