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Originally Posted by CaptHawkeye
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What's funny is that an absurdly simple way to protect merchant shipping in the Gulf is already available. It wouldn't even require arming Tankers and Freighters. Simply bring back the Convoy System. Every major world power and their dog has SOME kind of naval presense in that region. It wouldn't be hard to just organize the container ships into groups and have them escorted by a single DDG or even a Frigate.
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Why not just put a few squads of infantry on each vessel depending on its size? Would be a lot cheaper than some NATO FFG that was made to hunt Soviet subs.
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This increases the danger to the tank though. Since infantry squads could repel attacks easily, they could not discourage them entirely. No one is going to want to assault a convoy of 3-4 ships when a Burkleswarm is leading the pack. That's the problem with a lot of these pirates, their are so many of them and yet so few military ships to GET them. What you want to do is make them come to you. |
Air power.
Little Birds, Cobras, air-based recce.
FFARs, Cannons.
You don't want to wait until they "come to you". You want to actively hunt, find and kill them before they can come to you, and destroy their infrastructure on land, and the rewards their bosses have from this lucrative business. Bomb the villas and new settlements from where they operate.
that way they cannot and/or will not come to you anymore.
the business must be stopped to be rewarding for them. It must be turned to be painful for them - so make it painful for them, then. when enough pirates have been killed and enough villas have been burnt, they will not come anymore.