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Its important to remember what kind of boats the pirates are using. They are literally speedboats - towed out to see by a larger "mothership". The range is limited, the contruction is no more solid that the skiboat that pulls you at the lake. The mothership is little more than a fishing boat - usually wooden but possibily composite hull. Your not talking about a metal hulled vessel at all.....
20 and 30 mm will chew through any of this - heck the 50 cal will sink the speedboats, even the 7.62 would if you used enough of it. A single Seahawk carries enough small ammo to take out the speedboats, and using a hellfire or tow on a mothership is pretty much overkill.
Remember that the destroyer doesn't have to be "close" - the range and speed of the SH 60 gives them a huge "coverage" area. Also - what is often done is shooting out the engines of the vessels in question with small arms = leaving them dead in the water until the nearest military vessel can close.
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Captain Haplo
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