Exactly. The HHQ-10 cannot attack anything except missiles and bombs. 8 of them are perfectly capable of defending against the minor, one-time attacks from a non-state actor or from one or two ships, fighters, or subs. Asking any more of this platform is unreasonable. They could have increased the armament of this ship very easily with 8 ASCMs/ASW missiles and 18 HHQ-10s without breaking its back (and they still could in the future), but this thing is a patrol vessel, not a true ship of the line. It's meant to be produced cheaply in large numbers and to deal with minor threats. Expecting this ship to survive a concerted attack or multiple attacks is just surreal.
056 class FFL/corvette
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The 056 design probably started off as an OPV (Pattani class) and they are more resistant to scope creep. Had the design started off as something like the Sa'ar V then the end result would look very different.
Hendrik_2000
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Hendrik_2000
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Here is the video
steve_rolfe
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42 Launched of which 32 have been Commissioned.
MwRYum
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It's a quantum leap from the woefully obsolete 037 series, no doubt... though small it has a lot of punching power, piggy backing a Z9
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