US Flagged Vessel Captured! UPDATE: Navy SEALS take out pirates

fatty · 04-10-09, 09:56 PM

21,000 vessels transit the Gulf of Aden every year; that's almost 57 a day. Weighing the imposed costs of contemporary maritime piracy against the prospective costs of equipping all of these ships with weapons or security detachments, plus enhancing port security measures and policy to accomodate foreign-crewed and heavily-armed ships... I don't anticipate arming merchant ships or their crews being accepted as favourable options.

pythos · 04-11-09, 12:37 AM

Okay then, re institute convoys. We have destroyers, let's use them. Perhaps the Germans had it correct years ago when they made the U-cargo ships. The Huge submersible cargo boats.

04-10-09, 09:56 PM	#1
fatty The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,448 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	21,000 vessels transit the Gulf of Aden every year; that's almost 57 a day. Weighing the imposed costs of contemporary maritime piracy against the prospective costs of equipping all of these ships with weapons or security detachments, plus enhancing port security measures and policy to accomodate foreign-crewed and heavily-armed ships... I don't anticipate arming merchant ships or their crews being accepted as favourable options.

04-11-09, 12:37 AM	#2
pythos Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere over there Posts: 834 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	Okay then, re institute convoys. We have destroyers, let's use them. Perhaps the Germans had it correct years ago when they made the U-cargo ships. The Huge submersible cargo boats.