No, I think what he's saying is that we can never match the USAF in the next 30 years but we can make the USAF useless in the Persian Gulf by having seaborne air defenses in large numbers that will turn the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman into a real hell for your airborne assets.
What I understood from his post is that we should build small fast boats armed with SAMs to counter the air superiority of the USAF. That will solve many of our problems in case of a potential conflict with the US.
Small boats of that size can only carry short range SAMs. You know that. And you saw what happened to Pantsirs in Syria and Libya. But go ahead and put large SAMs on those small boats if you think it will help.