96 x 4 = 384 missile... Now you can multiply your desired point defense or short to mid-range air defense missile's weight with this number. If you want to compare with western standard. If we speak on US standards RIM-162 ESSM is around +250 kg. If you want areal defense at least SM-2 is around +750 kg, one per cell.
The above model is an extremely raw, even we cant say it is a prelimanary design. As it continues to develop, its geometry will improve and the superstructure will become more logical.
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Well, I guess they're talking about this type of launch system:
Royal Navy Type 23 Frigate HMS Portland fires a Sea Wolf missile
I think it can be considered even a raw concept, will grow into a conceptual design ,and then the feasibility assessment will lead to what we call prelimineary design hasn't been assessed yet.
I dont quite believe it has came from hands of an engineer,but it was rather an artist who had put things on the vessel.
It is a trimaran, the more hulls are not always the better, especially in severe seas a trimaran like this can be barely operational. It looks quite well equipped but not spacious, there are bunch of guns, state of art radars thus it will require at least 60-80 of crew, considering the current space it doesnt seem possible. The vessel should be highly automated to achieve all those which currently even US couldnt have achieved it.
Above mentioned, that trimarans are good for cases you need high speed but low maneuverability (depends on configuration,and the reason why water jets are used there), considering it is meant for gulf (since it may not be effective in open seas) they will soon switch to monohulls (hopefully). Advantage of a trimaran is large flight deck and high modularity (which is not applied to this design), applying it to a heavily armed frigate may end quite sad. If it has meant to high speed,then they should have pointed ASMs toward the fore.
I loved design of the supper structure , switching to monohull and applying the same design lines would end up with a great ship. But VLS will not fit the current hull if they are sticking to have a truly trimaran ship, the main hull will be too narrow or they wont able to fit more than 3-4 meters of VL tubes. If main hull gets wider then tri hull would be pointless.
If there is an engineer who is really desiring to have a trimaran design,he can guide his desires onto design of a FAC, like indonesian one. The hangar doors are not practical in anyway and it wont save much RCS as they thought. Moreover, designing such a trimaran may require fine skills on aliminum welding,extruding and making use of those in shipbuilding,it may be challenging.
anti-submarine role (2 helicopters)
I would be delighted to see how nicely those sonars (either towed or attached to fore-bottom) will operate. Along with gas turbines, wave piercing form and waterjets at the aft, neither towed or bow sonar might be effective thus the ship will entirely rely on helicopters for ASM targets. AShM could be useful but iran doesnt need an AShM ship in the gulf, this rather looks like a new concept,fast and self capable area denial vessel to be placed in front with strong self-defence tools (4 ciws is pretty much) even to protect smaller vessels around it.
I`d say that conceptually its actually much closer to this one...
.....the new chinese frigate design,except of course the iranian design is probably at least 500+ tons heavier,not to mention that judging by,on the model at least,both the radar set up [2 sets of aesa radars,possibly s+x band similar to the B373 perhaps?] and the large number of vls cells carried,that the iranian one clearly looks optimised for air defence,tho I imagine that the loadout and the number of the vls packs can be rearranged depending on the mission.
Ultimately tho,we still have yet to see both the navies new vls and a new naval sam system[hopefully] to go with it,so I think that its probably best to withold final judgement until then.However based on the model at least it certainly looks to have all of the features that one would expect of a very modern design,which is good to see.
https://www.popsci.com/chinas-new-triple-hulled-warship/
I dont quite agree on that, Iranian trimaran is closer to LCS design than of chinese one. Chinese one uses extra hull attachments to enlarge the hangar and helipad, Iranian design extends trimaran to starting point of supper structure makes it similar to Independence.
Chinese one is what will be used in future by many navies,with a main hull with conventional form and extra hulls for larger helipad and hangar, by trading off efficiency,simplicity and manevuarability
will operate as a FAC like air defence frigate)
