Well, the advertisement for the 400th-anniversary Mark 80 model in the June 16, 2392 issue of AvLeak boasts "95 forces supplied", though from context that seems to be the total for all time, not how many are currently using the type in that year. Still, we can assume that Stonewell Bellcom will sell them to anybody who a) can afford them and b) is on the WDF's "we're probably not going to have to fight these guys" list, and of course earlier models are presumably kicking around the used-military-hardware market in substantial quantities.

OK, in fairness the "authorized to sell to" criteria are a bit tighter and more complicated than that, but for purposes of discussion that's more or less what it boils down to. I would assume that a respectable number of your better-funded system-level defense organizations, planetary militias, and whatnot employ outdated versions, and current ones are frontline for a number of the larger multi-stellar polities that don't have indigenous combat aerospacecraft industries.

>What does the
>Salusian Navy, for example, use for its primary fighter these days?

Like the WDF, the RSN employs a mix of Veritech and fixed-configuration starfighters, and their Veritech forces include both VF-1s and the Legios platform. They were also one of the launch customers for both the VF-1 Lightning and VF-11 Thunderbolt series, and have shown an interest in the VF-19 Excalibur despite the fact that it was not successful in the WDF's Project Supernova trials.

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