Just to throw in my European perspective, the whole anti-Airbus reaction is basically just a blind xenophobia with little real basis in the comparative merits of the tenders. Remember that US is widely seen as bullying countries into buying its arms in favour of their local equivalents.
Some would say that US is a superpower on the brink of decline with China, India and Russia on the rise. Maybe the next 50 years will see much more hardware bought abroad.
I suspect that the item in between the Bridge and the 76mm might be a launcher for MANPAD’s. As for the Phalanx copy- to the best of my knowledge Iran never recieved Phalanx so I have no idea where they would have got one from, and I doubt that they have the knowhow to design one from scratch.
On a side note, this thing looks rather top heavy, it might not be but all the weapons seem to be mounted quite high up on the super-sructure.
The model that illustration was based on turns out to differ from the real ship in some details. Recently a video of the ship was released showing that the arment forward of the bridge consisted of two manned 20mm light AAA, one each side – um, hardly high tech lol. In the video the 76mm main gun has yet to be fitted and we don’t get o see the rear of the ship.
Aren’t the RN adopting the fully automated 30mm DS-30 MkII mount specifically to give close in defence against small boats etc?
(I think the rocket pack, if it contained laser guided rockets, would be a great idea but alas typical British cost cutting killed that idea I think.
Lol @ Tejas
Can’t decide, so many overwhelm for small brain ….
Saunders Roe SR.177 (Demonstrator SR.53 shown)
Arrow
BAe Replica
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