[Newsbot]

Title: Pirates threaten revenge after rescue
Category: Military
Posted By: stokes
Date: 2009-04-13 09:42:38
Canadian

[tritium]

The pirates woke the sleeping giant by attacking a US flagged ship.

They could have continued the gravy train if they just avoided a US vesel..

[RUEZ]

Revenge? What are they going to do capture some more ships?

[tritium]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Revenge? What are they going to do capture some more ships?

Al Qaeda I am sure has some factions operating among these pirates and the US Navy ship USS Cole was attacked in Somalian waters.

Somali may turn out to be Obama's Iraq.

[TattoodGirl]

tritium tritium:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Revenge? What are they going to do capture some more ships?

Al Qaeda I am sure has some factions operating among these pirates and the US Navy ship USS Cole was attacked in Somalian waters.

Somali may turn out to be Obama's Iraq.

At least there would be a reason to be there

[Bodah]

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

[bootlegga]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Revenge? What are they going to do capture some more ships?

$1:

"We will intensify our attacks even reaching very far away from Somalia waters, and next time we get American citizens... they [should] expect no mercy from us."

Maybe we'll have to go back to convoys to prevent these pirates from kidnapping and/or killing more people.

[tritium]

Bodah Bodah:

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

O.K. the shipmates are now armed, how will that help when they attack your oil tanker with an RPG?

Pay up or we sink your ship? Think of the enviormental damage that could be caused.





The merchant ships need a Naval escort like China does already....

** http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009- ... 614754.htm



Photo taken from missile destroyer "Wuhan" of a Chinese naval fleet shows four Chinese ships sailing in the Gulf of Aden under the escort of the Chinese naval fleet, Jan. 6, 2009. The Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. Four Chinese ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escorted by the fleet. (Xinhua Photo)




A ship of China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) sails in the Gulf of Aden under the escort of a Chinese naval fleet (not seen in the picture) Jan. 6, 2009. The Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. Four Chinese ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escorted by the fleet. (Xinhua Photo)

[Bodah]

tritium tritium:

Bodah Bodah:

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

O.K. the shipmates are now armed, how will that help when they attack your oil tanker with an RPG?

TOWS Have a longer range than RPG's, achieve peace with superior firepower.

[Pseudonym]

I thought we weren't at war with Islam.

[Scape]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Revenge? What are they going to do capture some more ships?

Will pirates join forces with Islamist militias in Somalia?

$1:

More than 200 mariners are still being held by Somali pirates.

They already have plenty.

[martin14]

tritium tritium:

Bodah Bodah:

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

O.K. the shipmates are now armed, how will that help when they attack your oil tanker with an RPG?

Pay up or we sink your ship? Think of the enviormental damage that could be caused.





The merchant ships need a Naval escort like China does already....

** http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009- ... 614754.htm



Photo taken from missile destroyer "Wuhan" of a Chinese naval fleet shows four Chinese ships sailing in the Gulf of Aden under the escort of the Chinese naval fleet, Jan. 6, 2009. The Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. Four Chinese ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escorted by the fleet. (Xinhua Photo)




A ship of China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) sails in the Gulf of Aden under the escort of a Chinese naval fleet (not seen in the picture) Jan. 6, 2009. The Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. Four Chinese ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escorted by the fleet. (Xinhua Photo)

But but, they wouldnt blow up a ship, after all, they are the ones crying about
the environmental damage being caused already, they would just be adding to it.

Or is it they don't really give a shit about the environment ?

Seems to me we are going to spend a lot of money to protect shipping
that shouldnt need it in this day and age,
and of course we are going to pay for it at the checkout.


Time for the Somalis to grow up, I'm hoping for a Barbary type solution.

[QBall]

tritium tritium:

Bodah Bodah:

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

O.K. the shipmates are now armed, how will that help when they attack your oil tanker with an RPG?

Pay up or we sink your ship? Think of the enviormental damage that could be caused.

The max range of an RPG-7 is 920 meters. The max effective range of a Browning .50 cal is 2000 yards, with a max range in the neighbourhood of, if I remember correctly, 7000 yards. No contest. Plus the pirates are firing from a small boat, so the person firing the RPG will have to contend with wind, waves, wake, incoming fire and the small boat manoeuvering to avoid said incoming fire.

[bootlegga]

QBall QBall:

tritium tritium:

Bodah Bodah:

These pirates are lucky the personel on these ships aren't armed. They should be.

O.K. the shipmates are now armed, how will that help when they attack your oil tanker with an RPG?

Pay up or we sink your ship? Think of the enviormental damage that could be caused.

The max range of an RPG-7 is 920 meters. The max effective range of a Browning .50 cal is 2000 yards, with a max range in the neighbourhood of, if I remember correctly, 7000 yards. No contest. Plus the pirates are firing from a small boat, so the person firing the RPG will have to contend with wind, waves, wake, incoming fire and the small boat manoeuvering to avoid said incoming fire.

What happens when they get heavy machine guns (like Somali warlords used on their 'technicals' back in the 90s) or even autocannon? Then they outrange you again...so you get a 57 mm Oerlikeron like on Canadian frigates...so they buy black market Silkworms or Exocets...see where this is heading?

[Proculation]

QBall: your name reminds me something I've read. The call it a Q-Ship. It's a heavily armed ship looking to be a merchant ship. The arms are hidden and they were used a lot during WWII to counter the U-boats.

That would be a good idea.