Avast ye scurrrrrvy sea-dogs! The USS Churchill be bringin' her guns to bear!

[Navy ECMO]

Let this be a lesson to all ye who dare ta cross swords with the the sailors of this man's Navy!

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/...ESRC=navy-a.nl

[lovechild1970]

Yea, man! I saw this last week when I was hanging with my bud J.D. I was like pirates in this day and age?! He said they are all over the place. I was like yea, sure stealing software they are. And they we got into a twenty minute dialog on nabing pirates...

Hunt those dumb As down, Navy!

[ironrice]

Navy, why would they shoot warning shot? Would the Navy actually shoot the ship down...errr shoot the ship drown.....shoot the ship until it sinks? Is that the policy? If so that would be cool. Just shoot some boats that won't stop.

[Memphis]

i wonder when they make a movie of this, if they will refer to the people on the pirate ship as 'skinnies' like they did in black hawk down?

[Jaylin]

Pirates attacked that cruise ship not too long ago also...

[Navy ECMO]

Originally Posted by ironrice

Navy, why would they shoot warning shot? Would the Navy actually shoot the ship down...errr shoot the ship drown.....shoot the ship until it sinks? Is that the policy? If so that would be cool. Just shoot some boats that won't stop.

I'm far from an expert in Law of the Sea, but as I understand it they can only "shoot to kill" so to speak in self defense. If they feel the safety of their own crew and the seaworthiness of the ship are in danger. Even with RPGs they ain't doin' shit to a Destroyer. Even if they could, the backlash would be horrendous. We would be the bullies. Besides, as they showed here, it's not necessary. You send 10's of thousands of tons of ship after a dhow, they'll more than likely get the picture. Here you can see the difference in size:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...8FA3SQ80.shtml

Here's another story about piracy that I read about a month or two ago:
http://knownunknowns.blogspot.com/20...yesterday.html

BTW, the skipper of the second boat with the shotgun.....retired Navy!




***edit - I used the wrong link in the first story. Now you can see the two ships.

[Jaylin]

Hahahaha...that second one is to damn funny...good for them...

[irishworld]

Originally Posted by lovechild1970

Yea, man! I saw this last week when I was hanging with my bud J.D. I was like pirates in this day and age?! He said they are all over the place. I was like yea, sure stealing software they are. And they we got into a twenty minute dialog on nabing pirates...

Hunt those dumb As down, Navy!

I literally have to brief Piracy to a four star general at least twice a week. Its the biggest security threat in Southeast Aisa. I had a friend who had his boat burned by pirates...forget hook hands though, they have Ak-47's!!

[Navy ECMO]

All this talk about pirates reminded me of this skit from last week's SNL. Hilarious.


http://www.youtube.com/w/Pirate-Convention---SNL?v=yzlkx7cCkHQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ei%2Dam%2 Dbored%2Ecom%2Fbored%5Flink%2Ecfm%3Flink%5Fid%3D15 335

[ABQ_G35]

Originally Posted by Navy ECMO

Let this be a lesson to all ye who dare ta cross swords with the the sailors of this man's Navy!

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/...ESRC=navy-a.nl

You bet Navy, don't screw with the Nav!

[Memphis]

Originally Posted by Navy ECMO

All this talk about pirates reminded me of this skit from last week's SNL. Hilarious.

right ye aRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRe!!!!

[Jaylin]

No vacancy at the Ritz Carrrltoon...

[irishworld]

hehe... and you all thought this thread was dead...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4669050.stm