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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RocketMan on April 02, 2010, 02:38:48 PM
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The US Navy has had fun two days in a row with Somali pirates. In the first event, five pirates actually attacked the USS Nicholas, a frigate, a few hundred miles west of the Seychelles Islands, about 1230 local time Thursday.
The pirates managed to get themselves and their mothership captured, and their skiff sunk.
Earlier today, the USS Farragut, a destroyer, disarmed a group of pirates and sank their mothership off the coast of Somalia after responding to an attack on a tanker.
The attack on the Nicholas was entirely too amusing, as the pirates apparently are having serious problems with proper target identification.
Stories here (http://www.katu.com/news/national/89681082.html) and here (http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/02/pirate-season-is-heating-up/).
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The attack on the Nicholas was entirely too amusing, as the pirates apparently are having serious problems with proper target identification.
I think they picked the perfect target. =D
jim
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still playing nice are we? the problem will remain till we get chinese in our response. and its a bonus for the sharks. next few times unleash all we have this side of a cruise missile and video it. make video's public rinse lather repeat till the lesson is learned.mother ships too.
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The Nicholas reminds me of an attempt a few years ago. The pirates were following what they thought was a resupply ship. Well they get within two miles of the ship and it begins turning. To their horror and no doubt the ship's great amusement, it turned out they were stalking a German Destroyer. Germans 1, pirates 0.
An earlier event in 2006 involved a US Destroyer following a mothership (outboard motorboat) towing two skiffs from just over the horizon all night. Come morning a US Cruiser appears in front of em. Yup, all night the Destroyer was radioing a Cruiser into an intercept. US Navy Cruiser + Destroyer (10,000 ton ships apiece) vs. 1 Motor boat and 2 skiffs. And the pirates actually tried shooting at them. :laugh: The cruiser and destroyer just kinda drove in circles around the poor saps shooting back. Short story, the motor boat was burned to the waterline, the two skiffs impounded and numerous pirates arrested/wounded/killed.
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Short story, the motor boat was burned to the waterline, the two skiffs impounded and numerous pirates arrested/wounded/killed.
I would think that one five inch shell lobbed in the middle of the mob would have made a hole in the water into which the whole mess would have disappeared... =|
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yes!!! winner!
what pirates? :angel:
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I would think that one five inch shell lobbed in the middle of the mob would have made a hole in the water into which the whole mess would have disappeared... =|
They restrained themselves to only using M60's, M2's and Mk-38 25mm's. =D
Personally, if I could have gotten a good radar lock I would have lobbed a Harpoon ASM at the motorboat and then sent the video back to the pirate dens in Somalia, but I got a special place in the blackest recesses of my soul for pirates.
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I am getting really tired of any nation, us included, from arresting the pirates instead of shooting them on site. It's not like this whole piracy thing is new. There are already protocols in place for this. Shoot pirates on sight. It worked before, it will work now.
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still playing nice are we? the problem will remain till we get chinese in our response. and its a bonus for the sharks. next few times unleash all we have this side of a cruise missile and video it. make video's public rinse lather repeat till the lesson is learned.mother ships too.
Negative.
Pick off all but one of the crew. Rescue him. Sink all associated pirate vessels while he watches. Repatriate him. Word of mouth will be the best weapon available.
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good points? do we have to repatriate him whole? at least give him a scar to remember us by. just don't punch him or you'll be up on charges
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good points? do we have to repatriate him whole? at least give him a scar to remember us by. just don't punch him or you'll be up on charges
A good scar, like a blown off leg.
:cool:
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A good scar, like a blown off leg.
:cool:
Needs to lose an eye, too.
And maybe replace one arm with a hook.
;)
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A good scar, like a blown off leg.
:cool:
Needs to lose an eye, too.
And maybe replace one arm with a hook.
;)
And replace the missing leg with a peg.
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And give him Monkeyleg's parrot. :laugh:
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And give him Monkeyleg's parrot.
Hey, that parrot is American! ;)
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at least give him a scar to remember us by
"Well, I reckon we drop you back off in your country, you're gonna take off that pirate uniform, aintche?"
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It's good to hear a positive Somalian Pirate story, not just them getting away with it. =D
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And replace the missing leg with a peg.
If he doesn't talk like a pirate, how about pirate speaking lessons. Arrrrg. =)