On 1/10/2014 11:25 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:52:00 -0800 (PST), "John H."
wrote:

On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:10:13 PM UTC-5, KC wrote:
On 1/10/2014 7:28 PM, Tim wrote:

On Friday, January 10, 2014 7:59:27 AM UTC-6, John H. wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:19:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:







A "LAWS" wouldn't hurt either. Well, depends on which end your on...







Their effective range is pretty short, well within AK-47 range.



Colonel William Prescott "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!"





The problem with fighting back with small arms or rockets, is they can

stand off a ways and sink you with theirs a lot easier than you can hit

them in their tiny boats... or run a cable and disable you, then hit you

with the rockets...That is what I heard anyway, as a reason why the

bigger ships just can't fight them off with small arms....

The .50 cal machine gun can shoot a mile off. Being a machine gun, it can put a lot of rounds on target. Why they don't put one on every ship is beyond me.

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It seems to work for the Coast Guard.


Sure, but they are mounted on choppers and go fasts... Not to mention,
if you bring something big enough to shoot back at the CG with, a quick
radio call and it's gonna' rain depleted uranium on your ass in
minutes... I doubt a private ship has that kind of backup...