On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:15:37 +0000, Steve wrote:


They're looking for easy targets. If you're a bunch of pirates in a
little speedboat coming up to a tanker the size of an aircraft carrier
and while you're thinking of having to climb up a hundred foot rope
ladder there are guys on deck a hundred feet above you manning a few
mounted armored .50's and raining rounds into your boat while you're
still a mile out, you're gonna turn around real quick.

No one said they were smart pirates. Apparently, they, the pirates, were
the first to open fire on the Tabar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Tabar_(F44)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:10:13 -0600, wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:15:37 +0000, Steve wrote:


They're looking for easy targets. If you're a bunch of pirates in a
little speedboat coming up to a tanker the size of an aircraft carrier
and while you're thinking of having to climb up a hundred foot rope
ladder there are guys on deck a hundred feet above you manning a few
mounted armored .50's and raining rounds into your boat while you're
still a mile out, you're gonna turn around real quick.

No one said they were smart pirates. Apparently, they, the pirates, were
the first to open fire on the Tabar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Tabar_(F44)

Yes, but that was the big mothership that fired, not the little
speedboats they use to come alongside their prey and use grappling
hooks and rope ladders for boarding. Apparently being on the
mothership gave them an extremenly false sense of security.

Steve