With our f-ing Navy! Are they serious! Send a couple of subs out there and sink their dumb asses every time they even get near a ship. Why aren't we using the cool shit I see on Future Weapons..shape charges applied by Navy Seals, sonar tracking missiles, unmanned patrol boats with remote operated weapon systems.

I agree with you.  This issue of piracy seems easily solvable.  Just send a carrier task force into the region, sink the mother ships, blow up a few of the skiffs that are causing the mayhem, and carry out some airstrikes against their port facilities that cripple or destroy them.  This problem is only going to grow if nothing is done about it.  Historically, the best way to deal with pirates is to kill them and sink their ships, and last I heard, international maritime law allows for that.  President Obama surprised and pleased me by approving the action the USN took...maybe he has some balls after all...

your post, as written, is not a P&R post so it stays. Any reply post that begins to turn the thread into a P&R free for all will be pulled.

Yep - I agree - we need to do something that sends a clear message that you can't take on a USN battle group with fuckin' rowboat and a couple guns.

but now that you mention it. The piracy issue, while not unsolvable, is nowhere as easy a task as it sounds.

The Indian Ocean is a big place and the coast of Somalia is full of hiding places for pirates. It would take at least the resources of a carrier group supported by the navies of other nations to make a substantial impact on the pirates other than to make life a little more uncomfortable for them.

See DC, I can play nice. lol

Now as far as whether or not our current administration has the will to fight this battle is a topic best discussed on our little leper colony commonly referred to as the P&R Board.

I have wondered the same thing. These pirates may have more weapons that a freighter but surely there must be some way to curtail them.

This has been going on forever and happens so much more than we hear.What next...A cruise ship full of people being held

Kisses Haley

Last Sunday the NAVY gave new meaning to the trem  Easter Seals.


GO NAVY
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here are some facts that might put things in prospective:

The US Navy has fewer than 275 ships on active duty.

They patrol the World's Oceans and many hot spots

The area the pirates operate in is larger than the area of the country of India.

The pirates have no real organized facilities to attack.

The pirates operate in a country that doesn't exist as a functional country.

The situation is not a simple one.

The area that the pirates are operating in is over a million square miles.  think of it this way - try to track all the 30 ft. boats in a patch of ocean that covers that same area as a square drawn from Houston to Chicago to Boston to Miami and back to Houston.  

Now, even if you could track all those boats in that humongous area, try to figure out which are really fishing/pleasure vessels (most) and which are pirates.

Talk about your needle in the hay stack.

I think that randomly placing the US Seal teams (or British SAS, or French ALAT, or German KSK or Isreali Shayet, or Egyptian HRF - heck why doesn't every country place two teams into the fray) on various ships would be the best form of deterrent.  The pirates would never know which ship might cause them all to die.

The area they primarily operate in is too large for just a few Navy ships. However, to keep things on a sexual topic:

I think we need to nuke the bastards with shapely women who are armed with torpedos and whose weapons of mass "destraction" are lethal, because they're PMSing. And, there's always menopausal women looking for a good fight. The military underestimates the strength of women. Who said we can't take down a boat. We go down on everything else!  

Hugs,
Ciara

no one wants to come to our little leper colony because everyone there is dumb, LMAO.  Someone needs medication.

about the conditions under which so many people on this world live, and as a result, peoples aspirations and hopes cannot be met. They then channel their energies into the destructive. This happens in our inner cities, the middle east and all over the globe. I am a military lifer - I've seen most all of it. While the military solution is gratifying, and, well, a bit of good sport, it is not the long range solution.....

Very true the answer is not simple but we do need to SEAL their fate and we might let the Army help too.


Anchors Aweigh
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no, no, don't tell me! It'll come to me!

Maybe it won't come to you after all.

Especially since you and I both know there's very little likelihood that I know his real name.

I think Zisk is saying that your usage of 'His' is mis-applied to a 'Her'.  P&R's current crazy-prolific poster is a provider.  A 'She'.

Oh, I thought he was referring to when GaGambler called those on the P&R board the Leper Colony. I missed the other reference. My bad.