Yes, in the reference files you can make a mod to give pretty much any ship or structure strikecraft by finding this section.

squadTypeEntityDef:0 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:0 0.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:1 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:1 0.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:2 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:2 0.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:3 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:3 0.000000
maxNumCommandPoints 0

And changing it to say.

squadTypeEntityDef:0 "SquadTechCombat"
squadAntiMatterCost:0 90.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:1 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:1 0.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:2 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:2 0.000000
squadTypeEntityDef:3 ""
squadAntiMatterCost:3 0.000000
maxNumCommandPoints 1

this will give the unit one fighter squadron.

You will also have to give mesh of the unit you are working with a hangar point (most don't have one), which can be done in a text editor and I'll explain more when I have time.

Its because the ship you put it one doesn't have a hangar point for it to launch from. If you zoom out far enough you might see it flying around in the middle or no where, but yes it won't be useful. You have to edit the .mesh file and add one but I need to get on my other computer so I can actually look at the file.

Okay, basically every ship that can launch strikecraft needs to have a section in the mesh file that looks like this.

    NumPoints 8

    ...

    Point
        DataString "Hangar"
        Position [ 0.000000 -7.000000 255.000000 ]
        Orientation
             [ 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ]
             [ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 ]
             [ 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 ]

The position point will be different for each model, but if I just want to crudely add a new hangar point I just copy the point "Center" (as every ship has one of those) and change the name to Hangar. That will spawn the fighters out of the middle of the ship, but it won't effect gameplay, it may just look weird. Also make sure you increase the line NumPoints by one, so it will load your new hangar point correctly.