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@Ursus: I wasn't suggesting that the Polish airborne formation, whether a brigade or a division, would be sent to China- only that global tensions and concern that Polish troops would be ordered by Moscow to join the fight in the east would prompt the Polish military to begin upscaling its elite formations (including the 6th Pomeranian) as a readiness measure.

Re demographics and manpower, I may be oversimplifying this, but it doesn't seem too difficult to simply recall veterans of the division, ages 25-40 or so to add an extra battalion or two.

@Teg: I don't think so. AFAIK, the only heavy transports the Polish AF had were the AN-24, replaced by the AN-26. There were only about a dozen transports available at any one time. I'll have to look up their respective paratroop carrying capacities, but I doubt it was much more than a platoon or so.

According to Osprey publishing, the 6th Pomeranian was fixing to transition from parachute to airmobile (i.e. helicopter) operations in the IRL late 1980s. And with their SKOT APCs and SU-85 assault guns, they were probably always intended to function more as elite light mechanized infantry than proper airborne troops.

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