smaller crafts, that are designed with only combat in mind, have only few hours worth of fuel on board, smallish amounts of maintenance supplies, if any at all, and expected deployment time of 0.1 month(which is the minimum).
Those "shuttles" are pretty good for in-system defence, as they can get quickly to where they are needed from planetary bases and finish combat before they exceed their logistical durability (maintenance supplies, deployment time, fuel).
But in order to make them effective in combat they should be TG-trained. And here logistical durability becomes a real bottleneck.
while it is easy to somewhat overcome fuel bottleneck by pairing them with a slow tanker, it is much harder not to lose valuable craft without a maintenance facility, or with minimal one. Or to train effectively when deployment time is much smaller then required training time.
So how do you guys overcome it? how do you train your FACs and planet-based fighters?