Comment 1 for bug 1051472

It's because the airstrike mission via spyplane has the planes attack a specific, cell.
Ares did not fix the bug in which aircraft declock once they have chosen a target. Since the sw has to call that "cell" a target from the beginning of the spyplane mission, they declock the second they are spawned.

It's to bad aircraft airstrike sw never got more attention as I think a Sw which spawn a bunch of aircraft to guard an area from enemies would be really cool, but that would be a future feature request or expansion on the current system. The aircraft only ever target a single cell, and if the "enemy" a human knows your trying to take out his war-factory he can sell it the first signs of a plane hitting it with a missile. The temporary fix for this, airstrike with bomb-run style bombardment as it spreads the airstrike missions attack.