What you are discussing is the difference between ferry range and combat range. This has been discussed before (you can search "ferry range" in the forum archives), but Bytro has shown no interest in making related changes to in-game aircraft units. The game programmers, however, did recently modify the combat range of in-game strategic bombers to make them more consistent with WW2 reality and to give them a more realistic edge over the range of in-game rockets.generalpatton wrote:
All aircraft have a flight range, the total miles they can fly. If the plane is returning to base, that cuts his range in half.
2 Feb 2018, 19:58