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This is a technical thread concerning the militaries of the smaller countries in the first year of World War 2.

Poland
Denmark
Norway
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Belgium

How could these nations have best modernised their armed forces in the years leading upto the start of WW2?

Obviously they couldn't rearmed to the extent of Germany, Britain or France but they could have improved their effectiveness. The idea isn't to equip them with weapons that didn't exist in OTL, so Poland can't invent the bazooka or Belgium the assault rifle, but they should be able to manage things like more sub machine guns and anti-tank artillery, tanks equal to German Panzers and fighters to the Hurricane and Me-109.

So how could they get more bang for their buck?
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