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I'd say with spy satellites and drones they could easily identify pirate vessels and just sink them. To not engage them unless they're caught in the act or fire on our vessels first is pathetic. Or just have a few well armed commandos on a few vessels and when they approach, put a missile into the pirate vessels side.
Pirate suppression is a game we have played before. The pirates did not survive to surrender.
Losing ships to pirates is way more expensive than arming the merchantmen. If good cannot be shipped safely merchants stop shipping and that will not do anyone any good.
In any case the pirates do not seem to have any weaponry capable of overcoming even a small warship so I suggest a consortium of navies’ create a pirate suppression task force. Good hunting!
PS – old adage – If you ever pay the Dane geld you will never be rid of the Dane!
Guys, guys, you're overlooking the obvious solution. There's only one cure for pirates.
NINJAS!
hahaha! A friend of mine wore a 'NINJAS ARE BETTER' shirt with a pirate hat for halloween, since he's in a wheelchair he went as a 'Rolling contradiction'.
I'd say with spy satellites and drones they could easily identify pirate vessels and just sink them. To not engage them unless they're caught in the act or fire on our vessels first is pathetic. Or just have a few well armed commandos on a few vessels and when they approach, put a missile into the pirate vessels side.
That's what I was thinking too. It's hard for me to imagine that they can't track these ships via satellite. Just scan the known shipping lanes, then scramble a few fighters. One or two aircraft carriers floating around out there and the problem will go away very quickly.
CNN spoke with someone today from a British company that says they can use high pitch sounds that will keep the pirates 500 meters away from the ships. Also, said something about putting grease on the ship so if they did try to board they wouldn't be able to.
pg77 has the right answer. If you fire on a ship without them having committed an overt act YOU are guilty of piracy. Kind of like shooting a guy walking down the street because you THINK he looks supicious.
The guy referred to was on the radio this morning, he's an ex British (SAS probably, or perhaps Royal Marines) trooper. 3 man UNARMED crew on a ship, plus train the crew (no ladders haning over, roving crew patrols). The only "armament" the guards have a detection devices to find anyone coming close and a "sound" weapon that emits, IIRC about 140 Db @ about 1,000 hertz. That's as loud as a jet engine at takeoff, but at a cycle rate about 1/10 of the base on the worst boom box you ever heard coming out of a car stereo.
The sound would literally knock you off your feet, if you could tolerate getting that close.
Some better preventive measures need to be taken, however the ships already taken need to be released too.
Nothing says "knock it off" like some very public casualties to the pirates...
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