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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2008, 05:45:05 PM »
I think the firehoses are probably the best bet-wouldn't be too hard to sink one of these guys by waterlogging them.
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2008, 05:55:20 PM »
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2008, 06:28:04 PM »
Range is the issue, the pirates can fire from outside hose range and kill the crew manning them.  Especially with an overwatch boat.
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2008, 06:39:05 PM »
Quote from: Bigjake on April 04, 2008, 11:59:01 AM

I'd deep six those guys pro-bono.

APS privateers on a pirate hunting expedition to the gulf of Aden on a luxury yacht with more crew served goodness than yer average WW2 destroyer.  Pyrat rum, Titos vodka, and Beltfeds.  We gotta pencil this in as an APS meetup!

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2008, 06:41:51 PM »
Play dumb, and dead. Let them come right in, then let them have it. A half a dozen troopers with small arms - use the Bofors and .50 to deal with any standoff targets.

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #30 on: April 04, 2008, 06:43:45 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on April 04, 2008, 05:39:05 PM
Quote from: Bigjake on April 04, 2008, 11:59:01 AM

I'd deep six those guys pro-bono.

APS privateers on a pirate hunting expedition to the gulf of Aden on a luxury yacht with more crew served goodness than yer average WW2 destroyer.  Pyrat rum, Titos vodka, and Beltfeds.  We gotta pencil this in as an APS meetup!

Does this mean we'll have to take time out from clubbing baby seals?  undecided

surely theres got to be some cute, helpless wildlife on the coast of Somalia we can bludgeon... grin
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #31 on: April 04, 2008, 09:07:59 PM »
Quote from: Bigjake on April 04, 2008, 05:43:45 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on April 04, 2008, 05:39:05 PM
Quote from: Bigjake on April 04, 2008, 11:59:01 AM

I'd deep six those guys pro-bono.

APS privateers on a pirate hunting expedition to the gulf of Aden on a luxury yacht with more crew served goodness than yer average WW2 destroyer.  Pyrat rum, Titos vodka, and Beltfeds.  We gotta pencil this in as an APS meetup!

Does this mean we'll have to take time out from clubbing baby seals?  undecided

surely theres got to be some cute, helpless wildlife on the coast of Somalia we can bludgeon... grin

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #32 on: April 04, 2008, 09:29:36 PM »
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Didn't the US Navy do something like that a few years back? Somali pirates start shooting at US Navy, gets blown out of water, straight to hell?
We persued and destroyed a few pirate ships just a few month ago. dont recall the details. It does happen on occasion, but its fairly rare. The pirates dont mess with Navy ships,obviously, or screw around when they know we are nearby, but on occasion, we are closer than they realize, or think we won't/can't do anything, and it happens.

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #33 on: April 04, 2008, 09:53:29 PM »
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Pirates Seize Control of French Cruise Ship Off Coast of Somalia

As despicable as piratism is, I think if you're going to sail a cruise ship--loaded with Europeans whose weekly garbage would feed a Darfur family for a month-- off the shore of the most lawless nation (if that term even applies to Somalia) in the world, then you are asking for it.  Begging, even.

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2008, 11:06:44 PM »


 grin




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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #35 on: April 05, 2008, 10:22:12 AM »
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Does this mean we'll have to take time out from clubbing baby seals?


Sergeant Bob, we're just going to get a few pirates and greenpeacers on the way there.


IIRC weren't ye olde merchant ships back in the days of pirates armed with cannons themselves to fight off pirates ??


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The pirates dont mess with Navy ships, obviously, or screw around when they know we are nearby

Hmmmmmm, wonder why ??   rolleyes


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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #36 on: April 05, 2008, 12:57:42 PM »
Always wanted to carrier launch a B-52H...   grin
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2008, 01:25:54 PM »
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I think the firehoses are probably the best bet-wouldn't be too hard to sink one of these guys by waterlogging them.

Or...

We could just kill the murdering bastards.

And it'd be a lot more fun. With pretty, pretty explosions. And roasted pirate.







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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #38 on: April 05, 2008, 01:35:45 PM »
Quote from: dasmi on April 04, 2008, 01:36:22 PM
What if we converted one of your 320s into a gun ship instead?

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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #39 on: April 05, 2008, 01:39:23 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on April 05, 2008, 11:57:42 AM
Always wanted to carrier launch a B-52H...   grin

Heh, shades of the Doolittle raids....
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #40 on: April 05, 2008, 02:02:59 PM »
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The International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy, said in its annual report earlier this year that global pirate attacks rose by 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years.
Hey, didn't they recently start saying that global temperatures had not been increasing lately? 
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #41 on: April 05, 2008, 07:02:04 PM »
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Didn't they just decommission the Kennedy ??  With Fly320s, Leatherneck and Gewehr98 we have the start of an Airwing.   But I think one of the Iowa class BB's would be more fun. 
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #42 on: April 05, 2008, 07:14:08 PM »
I'd be perfectly satisfied purchasing one of the few remaining Elco 80' PT boats and restoring it.  I'm sure there's an M4 37mm cannon still lying around in Russia from the P-39 Airacobras we gave them after WWII.
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #43 on: April 05, 2008, 07:18:33 PM »
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But I think one of the Iowa class BB's would be more fun.

Yep, I like to see a couple of pirates clinging to the splinters of what's left of their boat saying to one another "Where the heck did that come from ??"  and "Man, that was loud !!"
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #44 on: April 06, 2008, 03:15:23 AM »
Quote from: Dionysusigma on April 05, 2008, 06:02:04 PM
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5) has a tendency to install big red buttons in the cockpit without exactly telling the pilots what they do  grin
So  you're the one!   grin
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #45 on: April 06, 2008, 03:31:35 AM »
I'd be OK with a perch in the crow's nest and a rifle.....

....a .50BMG Barrett rifle, that is.....  cool
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #46 on: April 06, 2008, 04:12:32 AM »
Soooo, you want to rescue and refit a warship Eh?

http://www.bozair.com/adamsmen/DDG2.html

I'm sure we could squeeze enough good kinds of armament on her to make everybody happy.  grin
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« Reply #47 on: April 06, 2008, 04:23:27 AM »
It'll be cheaper on gas than a BB.  laugh
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #48 on: April 06, 2008, 04:28:13 AM »

Aaaargh!
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Re: Pirates seize French cruise ship
« Reply #49 on: April 06, 2008, 04:50:00 AM »
We even got a Viking on the crew, I'd say we're ready!  laugh
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