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Something I'd like to see is about how the remaining air forces of the world are coping.

I know it's not canonical - but it is, actually - but there'd still be FWAC flying. And rotary aircraft. If the turbines on the M1 can keep turning on Alcohol, so can the turbines in the Apache, just for example.

But back to fixed-wing...

If fuels other than distilled alcohol are being made (and they are), then AvGas, which is kerosene, mostly (in the case of JP grades used by the US military), is as well. I remember reading where air units that are attritted down by 45% or so are considered "combat ineffective". Assuming this to be true, there still have to be a couple of hundred combat aircraft on the NATO side and an equal if not larger amount on the WarPac side, still capable of combat.

Fuel for aircraft isn't nonexistent, it's merely hard to come by.

Shit, you could do a whole adventure where your team is hard at work helping to secure a port somewhere in S. Europe to try and get avgas being shipped from the M-E across the Med. to the European theater.

You'd have rebuilt/repaired refineries in the US, too, providing fuel for whatever birds were still at home. In the fanciful "Mexico invading the US" scenario, the area where Davis-Monthan AFB is, is part of the occupied territories, but if a team were to secure the area long enough to bring in salvage teams, etc., I know there'd be birds they could fly out of there.

But I also realize that's skating dangerously close to the US coming out OK which is not what many people want out of the game, so.