A Dino delegation recently had a tour of a Pulsar SAS bomber and showed a great deal of interest in this strategic asset of the DDS. It is thought the Dino Army wants a similar capability. Currently the Dinos do field nuclear weapons but they tend to be smaller tactical bombs dropped by Dinomarks. The Dinos are looking into a stand-off nuclear bomber like the Pulsar.
The Dinomark RS is the ideal candidate for this. The most powerful ship in the Dino fleet but one without a real role. The small number of RS spend their time in orbit around Dino-Land and Pulsin as command ships for the protecting fleets but as few combatants have ever got close enough to the core planets the RS has seen little combat. Indeed the last time the Dinomark RS was involved in any meaningful combat was during the short Dino-DDS War in 2099 when an RS destroyed a Pulsar and badly damaged another.
The Dinos want a more aggressive foreign policy and using the RS as a bomber could be part of this.
In other Dino news the Dinomark NG fleet has been restored to 35 examples after 6 ships were restored to service. The Dinos keep a lot of older ships in storage, these 6 ships have been refurbished and upgraded up to NG/6a standard. However the XT fleet has been cut back to 175 after around 30 older ships were restored to reserve units or storage.
