# 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:** 5
### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@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): > > 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. lol i would be willing to bet whatever they are armed with, the US Navy has them beat lol. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/somali-pirates/202488)._