The Mark 3 Dinomark PT will enter service from next year (expected to be late in the year). Up until now few details of the major new version have been revealed but today Consul Zanus in one of his final engagements before he stands down at the end of the year gave a media briefing on the PT/3.
The PT/3 will have a new reactor design that will produce 35% more power compared to the unit in the Mark 2. This will allow for a new generation of energy hungry weapons and shields and still allow for maximum engine output. The PT/3 will have a new tactical sub-system (though to be the main reason for any delays), this will allow for simultaneous engagement with a theoretical 512 separate targets. The new system uses shared weapon data links similar to the DDS.
Another delay caused to the PT/3 was the redesign of the interior to take advantage of experience from the ABBO-Bolitic War. The PT/3 interior will be modular with fast switching of specific role modules (which will be carried under the belly).
Zanus also announced that PT/2b production would end once the final ships under construction were built. Then the remaining Mark 1 PTs would be rebuilt to PT/2b standard before production of the Mark 3 begins late in 2113.
