Enlisted currently has very few options for team support. Other than smoke explosives, a very rudimentary ping system, and engineer constructs, there aren’t many ways to directly influence your teams fighting capability. My proposed solution to this issue: Recon planes and an overhauled ping system 
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Onto the main concept! Recon/Night fighters
Recon would be a new class based around teamplay. They wouldn’t get their own plane slot; Instead I think it would be best if the amount of planes in the sky stayed at 2 for each team, with a maximum of 1 for each plane type. Recon planes in general would have worse (or non-existent) ground attack and fighting ability, but would make up for these shortcomings with their new recon ability, which is restocked the same way as bombs.
Pressing space whilst holding Rclick would enable a camera sight, pressing Lclick takes a picture of the battlefield below. Within the frame of the picture, the following effects are applied:
All strategic engineer constructs are marked for 30 seconds (rallies, ammo, guns) 
Tanks are permanently marked until they move 10m from their position 
Infantry positions (with the exception of snipers) are revealed on the map 
Enemy classes are shown in the scoreboard similar to friendlies 
All kills/destructions on marked targets not within the capture zone grant full kill/destruction credit for the next 30 seconds. + a flat 15xp for taking the picture
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These effects might seem pretty harsh, along with the massive xp gain but remember that to take an accurate picture the plane must be: traveling at a manageable speed, a flat angle, and within an appropriate altitude; making the recon plane extremely vulnerable to ground fire and enemy aircraft.
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I also have some radio jam/counter intelligence ideas for planes that lack any armament at all
Radio operators are disabled for 10 seconds along with artillery (not bombing raids) 
Enemy chat revealed and disabled for 10 seconds
Enemy marks are removed and disabled for 5 seconds 
Enemy rally points are disabled for 5 seconds, and their cooldowns are reset 
+25xp for every enemy mark and artillery strike disabled +30xp for every spawn blocked
Every faction has recon/night fighters but I will focus only on American war birds 
for my examples because I am most familiar with those.
(unlocks are based on the current proposed tech tree tiers system)
T1
SOC-1 Seagull
T2
F-10 (B-25 Recon variant with no weaponry)
T3
TBM-1C (AP-1 variant)
T4
P-70 Nighthawk
T5
P-61 Black Widow
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I also suggest a new ping system.
HLL has pretty good ping system that Enlisted can definitely draw from; Key proponent is the wheel which allows different ping types, this could actually free up UI and key-bind space. AI squad orders could also be found here and with extra complexity. (suppress this position, mortar strike here, throw smokes) This is a little irrelevant to the main idea of this post, but snipers could get their own abilities tied to this system.
Thanks for reading my little project that I have been working on, please leave a comment showing your support or critique 
