Im surprised that they did not use ai for that, knowing how much they like it.

I dont know when, but in my country community translations of anime are way better than those on an official streaming, if they are available at all. There is no point for paying for streaming when some random teams do better job at voicing anime while being funded by donations.

I think its is propably due to the max takeoff weight. Planes are capable of flight with much higher weight than they can take off with. So with air refueling, plane can take massive amount of weapons, while having fuel tanks low enough to take off, and then get the rest of the fuel mid air.