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    Maybe a simple way to stop pirates with out killing......

    Navy should buy/build a container ship,load it with dummy/empty containers with 2 hidden 105's(for last resort use)but the main guns would be 2 very good snipers armed with .50 cal. Barretts capable of hitting boat engines at 1,000 yds. or better,a dead in the water pirate ship is no threat,the 105's can take care of any heavy self defense need.

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    That's called a "Q Ship" and is an old trick. Q Ships were used in WWI and WWII to decoy Nazi submarines.

    It's not a bad idea, but we need to understand the pirates' inteligence system. If they have confederates notifying them when a ship leaves port, we need to generate the signature of a genuine trading vessel when in port.

    And ideally, the Q Ship should kill the pirates -- all of them -- and sail on, leaving the people on shore to wonder what happened to Ahmad and his crew.

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    When the pirates are being knocked off, this will tend to cause the others to question and think twice about the viability of their chosen profession.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vern Humphrey View Post
    That's called a "Q Ship" and is an old trick. Q Ships were used in WWI and WWII to decoy Nazi submarines.

    It's not a bad idea, but we need to understand the pirates' inteligence system. If they have confederates notifying them when a ship leaves port, we need to generate the signature of a genuine trading vessel when in port.

    And ideally, the Q Ship should kill the pirates -- all of them -- and sail on, leaving the people on shore to wonder what happened to Ahmad and his crew.
    I remember the "Q" ships that's why I brought it up,but I left out the "killig" aspect of it because of the public outcry it wil create,after all the pirates are just trying have a decent life(by stealing from every one else),but if it's a case of self defense then it's a diff. story,public does not understand that there is no "govt." there,ransoms don't go to help people,"tribal leaders" keep it for themselves.

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    If you remember Q ships then you remember the object was to send submarin4es and their crews to the bottom.
    Now wiping out the pirates will cause NO public outcry, if nobody knows about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vern Humphrey View Post
    That's called a "Q Ship" and is an old trick. Q Ships were used in WWI and WWII to decoy Nazi submarines.
    The US Navy built/converted exactly 5, count'um 5 vessels as "Q-Ships" in WW II. Of those 5, one (AK-101) was sunk with all hands by a U-boat (U-123) they never saw, one (IX-93) nearly sank out from under her crew due to its atrocious hull condition, and the other 3 simply wasted crews and fuel to no good purpose until they were re-converted to Merchantmen/Patrol Craft/scrapped in late 1943. Not a single U-boat was sunk, attacked, or even located by ANY of the "Q-Ships" in WW II!

    FWIW, Britishicon experience with "Q-ships" in WW II was similar to or worse than ours! Only Winston Churchill thought they were worth the candle.....one of those intuitively "nifty" ideas that worked a LOT better in historical fiction than it ever did in reality!
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    But then, the pirates want to board a ship rather than sink it. so a Q ship would work quite well today.

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    OK fine....buy who's gonna pay for it, who's gonna crew it, who's gonna run it? The US really doesn't have a dog in this fight. Our Merchant Marine is functionally non-existent (fewer than 100 vessels, 90% of them either in the Great Lakes or tankers running a rut between Valdez, AK and West Coast ports (and they only exist due to a piece of 1920's protectionist legislation called the Jones Act). The remaining 10% are re-flagged charters from foreign companies (Maersk is a Norwegianicon company) doing business for the US Gub'mint (another requirement of the Jones Act!). We have NOTHING for the Navy to protect!
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    The Navy's mission is to put a forward presence on the U.S. interests and protect the sealanes for commerce that we have an interest in (which doesn't require the vessel fly an American flag).
    Last edited by P. Greaney; 05-07-2009 at 02:02 PM. Reason: correction

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    Quote Originally Posted by P. Greaney View Post
    The Navy's mission is to put a forward presence on the U.S. interests and protect the sealanes for commerce that we have an interest in (which doesn't require the vessel fly an American flag).
    Quite correct....the only "dog" we have is the principal. The issue then becomes how many of our children we're willing to kill for that "principal".

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