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the tasks. Naval aviation can also be viewed as an asset - even though no aircraft carrier is available for now (or would ever be available). Sweden and Finland, meanwhile, have no attack helicopters, with Poland's capacity within that scope being quite limited - to put it mildly. In the foreseeable future, the support provided by other allies would be a must. Air forces would be the first branch of the military that may be potentially available. Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, Portugal, altogether operate more than 800 aircraft of a variety of types (Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35, legacy F-16s, Tornado IDS, and Mirage 2000) - and all of these states belong to NATO. The number would be unchanged in the foreseeable future. Nonetheless, the legacy MRCA would be decommissioned and replaced by new types. The quantity alone is not where it ends. First, it remains unclear as to how many and which countries would be willing to employ their armed forces. Secondly, facing a major international conflict, none of the states would give up a basic ability to defend the territory of their own. Thirdly, the armed forces also carry out other tasks. Finally, the availability of the assets is never at 100%, as mentioned above. One could however assume that up to 200 aircraft could be deployed from Europe, to support the allies. These may, in particular, include the German, British, Spanish, or Italian Eurofighters, along the French Mirage 2000D and multi-role ANALYSIS

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