If I would see that thing alone, taken off context, I would say it's a freight container. They often have waveish pattern in the exterior walls which from this distance may easily look like it's a rack of cylinders tied together like a VLS...
But I agree with Tphuang, it looks too big. It's not the wide but the lenght of it as in 054A the VLS is in lognitual position towards the bow. That thing looks too lenghty to be able to be fitted for the bow of 054A and this new ship doesen't appear to have anyway longer bow than the earlier two 054As. But I learned from that last time we speculated on hazy pics of possiple VLS for this shipclass to not make any statements......As far as I'm concerned it may well be a container or VLS rack...who knows...
Examining it closely and I got a container in the view of my window right now, containers have a wavy pattern but this pattern does not show roundish, tube like pattern. And whatever that pattern is, it won't look like 8 tubes stacked together. It also won't have the cavity underneath, which is the blast area.
Its possible that the supports is holding the VLS in a manner that is like the two VLS systems are end to end, with each system being 2 x 8. When installed, the surrounding supports maybe removed and the two VLS systems are settled on the proper position so they would appear as 4 rows of 8.
