Dealing with Somali pirates

[The Avon Lady]

Someone has this historically familiar suggestion to make, as this method isn't always working.

[Jimbuna]

Now that is a form of 'entrapment' I would support

[Happy Times]

I support, 12,7 and 7,62 machineguns with different ammunition would stop the raids.

[TteFAboB]

Yes, we used to load the broadsides of merchants with cannons. But machine-guns may still leave you vulnerable to return fire. Besides from those, perhaps you could carry 5 of these in a stabilized platform to start hitting them before they can hit you:

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

Yes, we used to load the broadsides of merchants with cannons. But machine-guns may still leave you vulnerable to return fire. Besides from those, perhaps you could carry 5 of these in a stabilized platform to start hitting them before they can hit you:

I thought of that too but wasnt sure how it works in ships. Everything has to be easy to train for the crews. The NSV is cheap and easy to train, range 2000m, penetration with armored piercing round is over 2cm.

[Spoon 11th]

Cannon from the CV 9040 would be adequate.

[The Avon Lady]

I would think the safest bet on a non-stable boat would be a pray-and-spray chain gun, as found on Apache helicopters and similar. But I'm just guessing.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

Cannon from the CV 9040 would be adequate.

Hear hear! Some guys watch funny videos about the CV9040 - I board it myself and make the countryside unsafe when loading the Beasts of Steel!

They don't make much, but when the Swedish makes some new toys for war, they often show up with spectacular good equipement on the ground, on and below the seas, and in the air. Their Gripen fighters and their stealth frigates are excellent designs, so are their conventional subs, and the CV9040 series is the best IFV in the world currently, imho.

The 40mm cannon makes it he most heavily armed and armoured IFV there is. It eats Marders and Bradleys for breakfast.

[Heibges]

This bad boy has been used before.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4418748.stm

[Zacho]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Hear hear! Some guys watch funny videos about the CV9040 - I board it myself and make the countryside unsafe when loading the Beasts of Steel!

They don't make much, but when the Swedish makes some new toys for war, they often show up with spectacular good equipement on the ground, on and below the seas, and in the air. Their Gripen fighters and their stealth frigates are excellent designs, so are their conventional subs, and the CV9040 series is the best IFV in the world currently, imho.

The 40mm cannon makes it he most heavily armed and armoured IFV there is. It eats Marders and Bradleys for breakfast.

BMP-3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP-3
It is armed with a 100mm main gun, which can fire conventional HE-Frag shells or AT-10 Stabber ATGMs, a 30mm autocannon, and a 7.62mm machine gun, all mounted coaxially in the turret. There are also two 7.62mm bow machine guns.

and for the pirates

AK-306

A derivatives of AK-630M was developed for light craft and this system was named as AK-306. Externally, there was no difference between AK-306 and AK-630 guns, but internally instead of using the exhaust to power the automatics, the AK-306 (A-219) used electricity. This version also lacked radar control, being only optically guided, hence making it less of an anti-missile weapon and more of a surface-to-surface weapon, and the designation of the overall system is consequently changed from A-213-Vympel-A to A-219. The design started in 1974 and the system was accepted into service in 1980. When production completed in 1986, 125 systems entered service.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-630

[Spoon 11th]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Hear hear! Some guys watch funny videos about the CV9040

Indeed.