Meet China's triple-hulled warship of the future: A trimaran vessel with [tr]

Popular Science ^ | February 23, 2017 | Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

[C19fan]

At the Dubai IDEX defense exposition, arms makers from around the world show off their latest wares. A notable debut at the recent 2017 show: a new, triple hulled Chinese warship design. While showing off a model of the planned ship, China Shipbuilding Trading Company announced that it is aiming to start construction on a "trimaran" warship in 2018 for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).

[C19fan]

What the US LCS should have been from the beginning.

[llevrok]

What the US LCS should have been from the beginning

We do the design, they steal it and refine it. We continue to spend millions while they sail.

[exnavy]

Sub sailers have a saying, two kinds of ships in the navy, subs, and targets.

[Dr. Sivana]

I thought they got the design from Gillette!

[Bob434]

with any luck the chinese will declare ‘Not even God can sink it”

[Afterguard]

Just a knock-off from the USN Littoral Combat Ship class. But the Chinaman seems to be armed better.

[GreyHoundSailor]

We need to bring the nuclear ASROC back.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A product of Kramerica Industries.

[exnavy]

Good idea!

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Paid for with the stupidity commonly referred to as "free trade".

Lenin once said that the capitalists would sell the commies the rope that they would hang them with. Well, free traitors went beyond that. They conned us into paying for the rope.

[Oztrich Boy]

There's nothing magical about the idea of a trimaran. In this case, the fiendishly clever Orientals just applied it to a regular warship, without insisting on an insane speed of 50 knots.

In any case if it was stolen from anyone it was the Brits, who built the Research Vessel Triton last century.
Now guarding Australia's north against illegals as the Australian Customs Vessel Triton