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Just as an aside....all air forces are going to have a lot of grounded aircraft.....not just for lack of fuel but also parts, repair, and maintenance issues. Take Germany at the end of WWII; they still had a LOT of aircraft surviving but not that many serviceable airframes. You can find photos showing dozens of serviceable and/or lightly damaged aircraft sitting idle around airfields. For example, you can't take off if the tires are so bad you'ld crash on landing