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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
The navy possess perhaps the only units that survived the French "annexation" in something resembling good order - they're of little use repelling a land attack, and throwing them at the French navy would be too obviously suicidal to even contemplate.
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So the remaining navy ships are hold up in naval base Den Helder which would have some of the last remaining Hawk and Patriots batteries the Netherlands has protection them.
The Netherlands has it own small gas and oil field located in the province of Drenthe, called the Schoonebeek oil field which has a total amount of 1 billion barrels and in peace time had a total output of some 3,000 barrels per day, also the Groningen gas field is there wich is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth-largest in the world, so if the Free-Netherlands government mange to keep them running they have no worry about oil and gas and also something to trade with the German states if needed.