This Pull Request lets users plan Tanker flights.
Features:
- Introduction of `Refueling` flight type.
- Tankers can be purchased at airbases and carriers.
- Tankers get planned by AI.
- Tankers are planned from airbases and at aircraft carriers.
- Tankers aim to be at high, fast, and 70 miles from the nearest threat.
(A10s won't be able to tank)
- Tankers racetrack orbit for one hour.
- Optional Tickbox to enable legacy tankers.
- S-3B Tanker added to factions.
- KC-130 MPRS added to factions.
- Kneeboard shows planned tankers, their tacans, and radios.
Limitations:
- AI doesn't know whether to plan probe and drogue or boom refueling
tankers.
- User can't choose tanker speed. Heavily loaded aircraft may have
trouble.
- User can't choose tanker altitude. A-10s will not make it to high
altitude.
Problems:
- Tanker callsigns do not increment, see attached image. (Investigated:
Need to use `FlyingType.callsign_dict`, instead of just
`FlyingType.callsign`. This seems like it might be significant work
to do.).
- Having a flight of two or more tankers only spawns one tanker.
- Let me know if you have a solution, or feel free to commit one.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/74509817/120909602-d7bc3680-c633-11eb-80d7-eccd4e095770.png
Missions with very large numbers of packages and short mission windows
would raise an exception here because we couldn't schedule more
frequently than once a minute. Switch to using seconds instead of
minutes to avoid that problem. If there are more packages than there are
seconds in the mission the game is broken for other reasons.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1154
The usual symptom here was the game breaking when a carrier is
destroyed. The carrier would no longer be operational but missions would
be assigned there that could not generate flight plans.
We want the scud to not be culled, but we should still cull things
nearby. Rather than making the scud the center of a 2.5km unculled zone,
just exclude missile objectives from culling.
Unit composition is defined by the doctrine. The most understaffed CP
will now get the most underrepresented unit type. Previously a random
understaffed CP would get a random unit type.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1057.
This limit is determined by the number of buildings that belong to Ammo
Depots at the front line's connected Control Point. The limit increases
for every surviving building at ammo depot objectives.
There is a lower limit to the number of units that will spawn, so that
if there are no surviving ammo depot buildings at a control point, there
will still be some ground conflict.
Target the air defenses whose *threat ranges* come closest to friendly
bases rather than the closest sites themselves. In other words, the
SA-10 that is 5 miles behind the SA-6 will now be the priority.
This also treats EWRs a bit differently. If they are not protected by a
SAM their detection range will be used for determining their "threat"
range. Otherwise a heuristic is used to determine whether or not they
can be safely attacked without encroaching on the covering SAM.
Every name generated depopulated the global list which made reset do
nothing. Large numbers of TGOs (or generation of many campaigns) would
drain the list fully and new squadrons would no longer have a name list
to pull from.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1144
AI flights were only getting a single Attack Group task against multi-
group TGOs (currently only a small group of SAMs like the SA-10, I
believe), so the AI would never attack the point defense SA-15 or AAA
groups.
DMS with decimal seconds is what the hornet uses for PP targest. In the
future we'll want to make this aircraft specific (and potentially user
preference for jets like the A-10 that can handle both L/L and MGRS).
We shouldn't consider the non-escorted parts of the flight path when
checking for threats to determine if escorts should be used or not,
since escorts can't help in those areas anyway. This was causing escorts
to be overly requested since the bullseye is now a part of the
"flight plan", but could have also triggered for divert waypoints, or
for aircraft taking off in a retreat from a threatened location.
