KC wrote:
On 1/11/2014 10:03 PM, Califbill wrote:
KC wrote:
On 1/10/2014 9:52 PM, 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.


Because it would escalate, the pirates would swarm with rockets and it
only takes one to get to the big ship hull and it's over... Either way,
they do not want that escalation, I think they would rather have the ship
be taken, and then fight with professionals, on known ground rather than
even professionals fighting after being surprised on the open ocean...

It the incident they made the movie about, the US special forces "fought"
(blew the suckers heads off) after making the circumstances, and setting
the playing field... No innocents got hurt, the ship was not damaged...

And the moment they rocketed a ship, the world opinion would support mass
extermination in their home hood.


Are you sure about that.. I mean, we haven't even fired anybody after
having our Embassy overrun and 4 Americans killed.... Just sayin'.

That's government stuff. Not having to pay more because your shoe delivery
was hijacked.