[Hodar]

Just me thinking.

My defence would be to drop a hose into the diesel tank, and spray the pirates with a couple hundred gallons of fuel; then toss a couple of flares in their direction.

But, that’s me ... I’m not much for passively hiding in a reinforced room for a resuce that may or may not come.

[monday]

AK 47’s have a much longer range than either fire hoses or flair guns and add to that the fact that diesel fuel isn't very flammable...well? I think a fifty caliber machine gun would be a better option.

[Lazamataz]

Diesel doesn’t burn well.

[BobinIL]

Good idea, I woud rather hide some vulcan miniguns in some dummy cargo containers and when the pirates approach the ship the sides of the container folds down and the miniguns open up hosing them down with hot lead. Kind of like the scene in waterworld when they used a quad 50.