High tech pirate deterrants

[Trooper110]

Take That! High-Tech Ways To Fight Off Pirates : NPR
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) News Release
American Technology Corporation - LRAD
Anti-Piracy Weapons - Top 10 For Future Use In Somalia

[Skud]

the rubber ball claymore would be a riot on land...limited effect at sea, I'd imagine. The super hose would be fun, but dangerous: if the guys have rifles they'd just shoot you off the ship before they got in range of the water cannon. That said, we are back to just shooting the thugs...cheaper and more effective than all these high tech solutions.

[mapes]

the rubber ball claymore would be a riot on land...limited effect at sea, I'd imagine. The super hose would be fun, but dangerous: if the guys have rifles they'd just shoot you off the ship before they got in range of the water cannon. That said, we are back to just shooting the thugs...cheaper and more effective than all these high tech solutions.

The LRAD did work a year ago BTW

[Skud]

The LRAD did work a year ago BTW

Oh, I'm sure it did. But I'm guessing the guys will leave the scene and just attack the next ship that doesn't have one. What I was saying is that it would be legally defensible to shoot armed pirates in self defense...and then they would not come back again for more.

[jaspurr]

Big guns firing lots of grape shot and chains like the old pirate days would keep them at bay. Maybe we should arm merchant ships like we did post WWII. My dad started out in the Merchant Navy and I have his training notes from learning to use the weapons including some big guns mounted strategically around the deck.

[Hammy]

ROFL I cant wait for the first article I read that says some Liberal Extremists were injured when a Japanese Whaling Vessel repelled a bunch of idiots in a Zodiac with Chemicals, foam and ultrasonic rifles, Tactics they learned during the Pirate Wars off the coast of Somalia

[Dead_And_Gone]

The Don't hurt them even though they want to KILL you just doesn't sit right with me. Oh I know about all the Politics and such. Russia would just shoot them and that would be that back in the day. (Or Heck, maybe even NOW)

Scratch someone's behind, and 4,000 reports in triplicate, and go in front of a board of inquiry as to whether you could have avoided scratching the guy who wanted to blow up your Ship/Jeep/Truck, etc...

[Hammy]

we should start waterboarding pirates until they tell us what the hell they did with all the polar bears

[Trooper110]

we should start waterboarding pirates until they tell us what the hell they did with all the polar bears

I second that motion!

[Apache Warrior]

Just fly an F18, at mach 1.5, fifty feet over a pirate boat. Nobody shot them and if they can't swim, it's their own fault.
Apache

[{CLR} Major.Massacre]

Just fly an F18, at mach 1.5, fifty feet over a pirate boat. Nobody shot them and if they can't swim, it's their own fault.
Apache

By far the funniest idea ive heard all week.

[Apache Warrior]

Not only funny it actually would work.
Apache

[jaspurr]

Not only funny it actually would work.
Apache

I had a Tornado fly over a rib that I was anchored up and asleep in. It's lucky dry suits keep stuff in as well as water out

[Storm_Shadow]

I had a Tornado fly over a rib that I was anchored up and asleep in. It's lucky dry suits keep stuff in as well as water out

ROFL!

Seriously, though, it surprises me that merchant ships are NOT armed since they spend most of their time in international waters.

[Apache Warrior]

Most governments will not allow armed merchant ships in their ports.
Apache