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Originally Posted by XenonSurf
It depends on the mod you play, in FOTRSU there are a lot of 'Neutral' ships or battleships whatever they do, I was not capable of intercepting one because always too far away after getting a report. They appear as green icons on your map. I sometimes have encountered single friendly destroyers heading in a sort of random course, no big deal but it could be useful to follow the ship if it's heading where you want to go. Better have an escort, don't you think... 
It's not like in SH3 or SH5 where friendly units actively partecipate in battles or such, in SH4 this doesn't happen AFAIK, except maybe in some 'dynamic missisons' which are scripted during campaign, the different campaign mods (TMO and RSRDC in particular) are not made and designed for excessive presence of friendly units and battles involved, and the stock game even less.
Friendly aircraft:
If you spot a convoy or task force you have the possibility to make a report by using the ship icon which is located in your Mission Orders' page. If a friendly airport or aircraft carrier is within short range (up to 600 miles or such) you can get air support after some time, IN THEORY, but I still have to see this.
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Not sure what you mean by excessive, but RSRD has every battle scripted and obviously knowing the history you can get close and partake in it. During the Solomon's it can be right fun to get in all the surface battles and score a lot of kills with friendly surface units and air power. Course you have to be careful, more than once I was hiding under a large enemy ship such as a BB I had stopped at night and would hide under it to avoid escorts and I had US planes attack it at dawn and blew it up right over me...which killed me too.