Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Alternately, we could give our mighty military forces and the mighty
military forces of other interested countries something useful to do
for a change. A few carriers and protective ships in the area,
helped by satellites and flyovers from carrier jets and prop planes,
would do it. We can easily keep track of the merchant vessels, and
we can in real time keep track of suspicious activities by the dinky
boats and ships the pirates operate.


Not enough ships for too big of an ocean. Fast as they may be, they
couldn't respond to a boarding 200 miles away in time to prevent it,
even at 30-35 kts. Maybe they all need to be retrofitted with a
bank of Etecs on their transoms to get there faster.

Eisboch

Eisboch


Or eTec launchers, to toss all the dead eTechs at the pirate boats.

A U.S. and other nation carrier, stationed strategically, could easily
be the mainstay of a force designed to keep the waters clear of pirates.
Remember, satellite technology makes it possible to track these pirate
craft from the moment they leave port.

Lots of small patrol craft are the real answer, all hooked up in a
communications network, with fighter jet backup. Do it the right way,
and no bitty pirate boats are going to be able to get close to the
freighters.





Catching these guys at sea is like trying to capture a bunch of bees
that have left their nest.
Better to destroy the nest.

The problem with your idea is that as soon as you relax a bit, they will
be back. It would require constant, endless surveillance to control
it. (it's been going on for many, many years).

Better to fix the problem than the symptoms.

Eisboch


A. They have several nests.
B. Destroying the nests would mean destroying the ports in a starving
nation.
C. Interdicting the pirates for a considerable period of time would give
our Navy something useful to do.
D. We supposedly are doing constant, endless surveillance in a number of
areas in the world, with huge flotillas. Most of what I envision could
be done with one U.S. carrier task force and a carrier or two from
another friendly nation, plus lots of small patrol boats and satellite
surveilliance.
E. Really fixing the problem would require rebuilding Somalia.

We always have at least one carrier group in the Indian Ocean, by the way.










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