To: Grzegorz 246
Who can explain how, if the ship mounted four M-2 .50 machine guns (bow, stern, port side and starboard,) such a speedboat could get within a mile of the ship?
3 posted on
09/25/2008 1:43:04 PM PDT by
MindBender26
(Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
To: MindBender26
But but but that would violate international LAW!!!!
5 posted on
09/25/2008 1:45:27 PM PDT by
null and void
(Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.-F. de La Rochefoucauld)
To: MindBender26
Happens all the time. Speedboats are small, fast-moving craft, which makes them difficult to see from long distances and hard to hit once you do see them. Plus crewman on cargo ships are usually less skilled at fighting than pirates. Very often pirates have someone on the inside, having planned the job long before the targeted ship even left port.
Piracy is a huge problem in that part of the world.
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