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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #50 on: November 21, 2008, 03:14:43 PM »
We need two ships. One is the main battle vessel, the other is a littoral ship that has no weaponry aboard at all.

Littoral ship goes to port and stocks up, comes out to international waters to resupply the big dog.

That easy. (that pricey too).
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #51 on: November 21, 2008, 03:24:53 PM »
Radical proposal:

Has anyone considered the use of a derigible?

We could bomb the pirates from above, and refuel/rearm without having to depend on a port of call.

What's the maximum operating range of the Goodyear Blimp?
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #52 on: November 21, 2008, 03:38:32 PM »
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We could bomb the pirates from above, and refuel/rearm without having to depend on a port of call.

The real money would be in liberating ships, not blowing up pirates.
The easiest way to do that is have well trained guys swim up with out being seen, board, and shoot the hostage takers. Then we could roar in and blow up the pirate  vessels.
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #53 on: November 21, 2008, 03:46:18 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on November 21, 2008, 03:24:53 PM
Radical proposal:

Has anyone considered the use of a derigible?

We could bomb the pirates from above, and refuel/rearm without having to depend on a port of call.

What's the maximum operating range of the Goodyear Blimp?

Lol this thread is just getting cooler and cooler by the minute :)
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #54 on: November 21, 2008, 04:10:27 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on November 21, 2008, 03:24:53 PM
Radical proposal:

Has anyone considered the use of a derigible?

We could bomb the pirates from above, and refuel/rearm without having to depend on a port of call.

What's the maximum operating range of the Goodyear Blimp?

Mr. Blimp, meet Mr. Shoulder-Fired Rocket.  :O

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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #55 on: November 21, 2008, 04:17:50 PM »
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Mr. Blimp, meet Mr. Shoulder-Fired Rocket.
Heh. The backblast would turn some surviving pirates into peg-legs. Might sink a speedboat.  =D

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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #56 on: November 21, 2008, 04:26:23 PM »
Quote from: Sawdust on November 21, 2008, 04:10:27 PM
Mr. Blimp, meet Mr. Shoulder-Fired Rocket.  :O

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We'll use Fistful as chaffe and evade harm with nary a problem.

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The real money would be in liberating ships, not blowing up pirates.

Money?  We're in this for altruism!  And fun!  And to explore the causal relationship between pirates and global warming!
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #57 on: November 21, 2008, 04:36:48 PM »
We would need money to get food and ammo and keep the expedition going.

Besides, who wants to risk their life for fun and not even get paid for doing so? Money serves as the great motivator. Why else would most of you leave your relatively well-paying jobs to become pirate hunters? Whats the fun in being a dirt poor mercenary?
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #58 on: November 21, 2008, 05:27:02 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on November 21, 2008, 04:26:23 PM
We'll use Fistful as chaffe and evade harm with nary a problem.

Money?  We're in this for altruism!  And fun!  And to explore the causal relationship between pirates and global warming!

Dude, you just fixed our finance issue!  The .Gov gives out grant money to study global worming like candy! 

Bogie, can you make us some official looking letterhead to mail them with our hands open??
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #59 on: November 21, 2008, 06:00:19 PM »
Quote from: Fistful Savalas on November 21, 2008, 04:17:50 PM
Heh. The backblast would turn some surviving pirates into peg-legs. Might sink a speedboat.  =D

Not if the back was pointed over the side.

Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on November 21, 2008, 04:26:23 PM
We'll use Fistful as chaffe and evade harm with nary a problem.

Who's warmer, Fistful, or two big engines running two bigger propellors?
And as for RPG threats, Fistful is a realtively small target, and chunks of him wouldn't be solid enough to trigger the detonator.
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #60 on: November 21, 2008, 06:09:17 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on November 21, 2008, 12:24:16 AM
How far out was the mothership?  There's not much range in those runabouts that were left.  I wonder if they remembered to bring oars?


Territorial waters extend about 12 miles from shore.  So presumably they were outside that, but the article didn't say just how far outside that. 
However, since Somalia lacks a central government nor a navy, not that they could stop another navy from patroling inside that 12 mile belt and dispatching pirates.  Good on India.
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #61 on: November 21, 2008, 06:23:58 PM »
You guys are forgetting some important safety aspects of the expedition.

The S.S. Fistful's Folly should have personal flotation devices, and lots of them.

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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #62 on: November 21, 2008, 07:48:20 PM »
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The S.S. Fistful's Folly

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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #63 on: November 21, 2008, 08:15:05 PM »
Quote from: freedom lover on November 21, 2008, 06:00:19 PM
Not if the back was pointed over the side.

Who's warmer, Fistful, or two big engines running two bigger propellors?
And as for RPG threats, Fistful is a realtively small target, and chunks of him wouldn't be solid enough to trigger the detonator.

RPGs, particularly the kind used by Somali pirates, aren't generally guided. 
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #64 on: November 21, 2008, 08:58:10 PM »
Marketing idea...

Have a core crew/cadre, and staff the bulk of the vessel via pleasure cruise ads in Varmint Hunter, Soldier of Fortune, and Gamerz R Us magazines - Charge the cruise guys $250/day (meals paid, drinks extra), and tell them they can bring any darn weapon they own.

End of every cruise, move the cargo containers around, repaint, and reregister.

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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #65 on: November 21, 2008, 09:10:47 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on November 21, 2008, 06:23:58 PM


The S.S. Fistful's Folly should have personal flotation devices, and lots of them.



Oh yeah...  We wouldn't want to flunk a random "safety inspection" boarding by the local Coasties...
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #66 on: November 22, 2008, 01:44:51 AM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on November 21, 2008, 04:26:23 PM

Money?  We're in this for altruism!  And fun!  And to explore the causal relationship between pirates and global warming!
There's nothing casual about the relationship between pirates and global warming my friend. Are we to just believe that the planet heated up when there was a decline in piracy? And now, when it appears to be cooling again we see, you guessed it, an increase in piratism.
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Re: Logistics of the APS Pirate Hunting Expedition?
« Reply #67 on: November 22, 2008, 02:16:33 AM »
How is it that I "knew" a girl that is exactly the same build/skin tone as the chick on the right of the picture? Hmmmm....Hmmmm???????



LOL. I'm still waiting for a departure date and port. What kind of timeline you guys looking at? :)
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