[Suicide Junkie]

The fighters you launch will merge into a single stack with the ones already there.

IIRC, the new, bigger stack will get fully resupplied by the carrier as it launches the fighters.

If you don't mind having one giant stack of fighters, then the carrier will work out well... whenever the fighters run low, recover and launch to resupply all of 'em.

Otherwise, just have the fighters rotate back to the resupply depot in the system so you always have, say, 3 stacks at the WP for every stack going to refuel.