New target strengths for Dino fleet

Consul El Diablo has told the Dino Army it needs to cut spending over the next 5 years by 2% over previously published budgets. This is part of El Diablo's plans to increase social spending without increasing the size of the budget overall. The news isn't all bad for the Dinos as the defence budget will continue to increase but not as much as previously hoped.

The Dino Army has revised its target strengths for its Dinomark and Provider fleets for 2116. The table below shows the current, original target and revised. SS and other agency Dinomarks are not included in the table as they are funded by separate budgets (which also will be reduced).

The Dinos will still have well over 200 warships by 2116 (though quite a few will be older XTs). To mitigate the reduced number of Provider transports the number of unmanned transport Provider XMA conversions (from old XTs) will increase.

Ship Type	2113 (Current)	2116 (Original)	2116 (Revised)
Dinomark RS	3	3	3
Dinomark PT	60	75	70
Dinomark XT	126	158	152
Provider MX	13	24	20
Provider EDA	8	10	8
Provider SX	7	8	8
Provider XMA	2	6	8