Today's aircraft inventory cannot be translated into 1939 simply by matching aircraft numbers. Modern air forces are much smaller, and advanced aircraft combine capabilities that lack a neat period equivalent. One approach increases the hypothetical Polish inventory to represent those capabilities, but a suggested Mosquito comparison is challenged because the aircraft arrives too late for the scenario. Modern missile defences would also become anti-aircraft guns with far less effective performance. Greater funding could support additional Polish aircraft development, yet the Luftwaffe's size and equipment still make the air war the least favourable part of the counterfactual.
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Why modern Polish air power is difficult to translate into 1939
The Polish counterfactual runs into smaller modern aircraft fleets, missions without clear 1939 equivalents, and the limitations of period anti-aircraft guns.