The four Korean crewmen who were held hostage by Somali pirates for 174 days say they were treated harshly by their captors.
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The four Korean crewmen who were held hostage by Somali pirates for 174 days say they were treated harshly by their captors.
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How could one man have been Captain of two vessels at the same time?
They were armed with canons? Does that mean canons of the 20mm or 30mm type or the “Pirates of the Caribbean” type? Pirates have been a problem in that neck of the woods for a long time, it’s not a secret. As far as I’m concerned, the captain and/or fishing company is responsible for the debacle.
He probably meant RPG’s. Cut him some slack, to allow for the difficulties of transcription of the story across time, space and the language barrier. There’s always a great variety of weapons that can be described by the uninitiated when they use these generic military weapons terms.
Repeating cannon of the type you’re thinking probably can’t be mounted in the small boats the Somali pirates use. The more interesting observation in the linked story is the one concerning probable Somali government connivance (or the connivance of various “moonlighting” Somali “govt” officials). Now that is a connection that should be readily susceptible to western naval/amphibious attack.
Such as the radio traffic center onshore that vectors the pirate craft into position to intercept their targets. A precision airstrike while they are transmitting ought to put a stop to that nonsense for a while.
Small “assault” type carriers in the area, ones with helos and small fast attack craft should do the job nicely. How about setting up a rotation schedule for a permanent presence there — and a turn for the “Dokdo” will provide the ROK navy with valuable “live-fire” experience.
HA! HA! Hey Paul. I actually though RPGs myself but couldn’t resist being sarcastic. Now that I think of it, a Carl G looks more cannon like in terms of looking cannon like. I was going to say that maybe a pirate had a 20mm strapped to his back, but thought that would be pushing the sarcasm too far!
That is thought RPGs…
Or they could be talking about the Russian made DShK 12.7mm machine guns that the Somali pirates also use. To the untrained eye it looks like a big ass cannon.
I’ve fired the .50 and it might as well have been a cannon. Not a very big diff between the two. The boys loaded it with tracers and it looked like a laser. Made it dirty as crap too.