be advised that the effectiveness of this has fluctuated greatly over the series of patches...I thought that patch 2 wingmen AI were actually useful as before that I just took off, then ordered them all to RTB to prevent the penalty for loosing wingmen since they only just flew into flak anyway.
then it seems to me lately that they are back to not being helpful. I picked a nice fat target, circled around it on a 8 mile arc with the target highlighted and repeated ordered the little digital monkey to attack my target which of course he made all of the radio calls, made a run, then did nothing. seen this several times.
now I am back to launch, then TAB, flight RTB...alone and undanted