# Somali pirates
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 10, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488 "2009-04-10T04:35:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/1 "2009-04-10T04:35:22Z")
Are these people heavily armed with something other than just hand held guns, like torpedos or large caliber ship-mounted guns? If not, once the whole hostage situation is resolved, isn’t there a fairly simple response to this problem?
The U.S. Navy sometimes uses decommisioned ships for target practice and instrumenting them to collect data on shock events like underwater detonations. These days it’s a huge effort/cost to “clean” the ships before they can be sunk due to concerns with PCB’s and other harmful items. I think you see where I’m going with this. If you’re going to spend money on training, might as well do it the cheap way.
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/2 "2009-04-10T04:47:13Z")
> [@Club W "Gamer Night" starting soon](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/club-w-gamer-night-starting-soon/40078/14):
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> Are these people heavily armed with something other than just hand held guns, like torpedos or large caliber ship-mounted guns? If not, once the whole hostage situation is resolved, isn’t there a fairly simple response to this problem?
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> The U.S. Navy sometimes uses decommisioned ships for target practice and instrumenting them to collect data on shock events like underwater detonations. These days it’s a huge effort/cost to “clean” the ships before they can be sunk due to concerns with PCB’s and other harmful items. I think you see where I’m going with this. If you’re going to spend money on training, might as well do it the cheap way.
I know they have aks rpgs etc
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### Author:  [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/3 "2009-04-10T04:51:58Z")
How about give authority to the ships to arm them self instead of damn fire hoses.
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/4 "2009-04-10T05:31:22Z")
> [@Staff update at Innovative Tuning](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/staff-update-at-innovative-tuning/40088/20):
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> How about give authority to the ships to arm them self instead of damn fire hoses.
its cause the Foreign ports do not allow weapons. BTW they are allowed to be armed
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/5 "2009-04-10T07:39:31Z")
> [@Club W "Gamer Night" starting soon](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/club-w-gamer-night-starting-soon/40078/14):
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> Are these people heavily armed with something other than just hand held guns, like torpedos or large caliber ship-mounted guns? If not, once the whole hostage situation is resolved, isn’t there a fairly simple response to this problem?
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> The U.S. Navy sometimes uses decommisioned ships for target practice and instrumenting them to collect data on shock events like underwater detonations. These days it’s a huge effort/cost to “clean” the ships before they can be sunk due to concerns with PCB’s and other harmful items. I think you see where I’m going with this. If you’re going to spend money on training, might as well do it the cheap way.
lol i would be willing to bet whatever they are armed with, the US Navy has them beat lol.
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### Author:  [@ZEX350Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZEX350Z)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/6 "2009-04-10T09:41:05Z")
I heard something like they have to monitor 1,000,000 miles. Thats a lot of coverage. Someone needs to retaliate - its just a matter of time.
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### Author:  [@JLude7](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JLude7)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/7 "2009-04-13T16:57:24Z")
good news. the seals took the pirates out
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### Author:  [@yamaha](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamaha)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/8 "2009-04-13T17:35:19Z")
US Armed Forces 1 Somali Pussies 0
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### Author:  [@Fox\_21\_Alpha](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fox_21_Alpha)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488/9 "2009-04-13T18:21:59Z")
One of the major problems with arming ship crews is it creates an entirely different situation when the crew has access to a weapons. While you’d expect them to be trained and such, not everyone is suited to handling weapons, and that isn’t exactly a forethought when signing up to work on a ship. Engineer gets mad at the cook, dude looses it, grabs the 12 gauge, you get the picture.
And also if the pirates know weapons are onboard, they’ll be much more agressive when they attempt to board. As bad as it is right now, the pirates do a lot of showing off, but generally don’t really hurt any body. If they board a ship and come under fire, you’ll have a lot more dead bodies.
I think the best strategy would to be to go after the pirates themselves. All these news papers go to “pirate coves” and cities and ports and shit, I wonder why no one has gone and jacked they’re boats or weapons or anything like that. They can claim to be pirates all they want, but no one will be sweating when their ass is trying to swim out to your ship.