# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![slowcamaro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowcamaro/32/5975_2.png) [@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): > > 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. I know they have aks rpgs etc --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488)._