Why don’t countries have decoys for Somali pirates?
Daniel G asked:
Like have a luxury yacht off the Somali coast filled with special forces and heavy weapons. Then when the pirates try to board, BAM! they’re all caught or killed. Pirates would think twice after that.
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Like have a luxury yacht off the Somali coast filled with special forces and heavy weapons. Then when the pirates try to board, BAM! they’re all caught or killed. Pirates would think twice after that.
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Category: Military | Tags: Bam, Countries, Decoys, Luxury Yacht, Somali Coast, Somali Pirates, Special Forces, Weapons, Yacht Clubs 9 comments »
June 5th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I’m sure we do. recently pirates were surprised to find themselves boarding just such a ship
June 7th, 2009 at 12:54 am
bacause that would violate their civil rights, would be police entrapment, they would sue, and Obama would bow to them
June 10th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hey what are you trying to do here,,,that might actually solve the problem.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Well, part of the problem is their method of operation. They typically attack from small boats dispatched from land or a larger ship, and remain under observation the whole time. As the current crisis is showing, they generally communicate well and do not hesitate to share info among themselves.
So, you set up your trap, risking your millions of dollars of people and equipment, and after catching a boat or two the observers know which boat you are in and spread the word. No other pirates come within a mile of you. Get a new boat and repeat. Doing this safely should only cost about a $million per pirate.
You need to catch the ones who are NOT boarding, and that is the harder part not solved with a gun.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Many large ships have their own privately funded, heavily armed mercenaries on board. You don’t hear on the news about the times pirates *tried* to board a vessel, but were unsucessful. Even this latest one, where pirates took the american captain hostage. People have already forgotten the other half of that story, the pirates were thwarted from taking the whole ship, and by an unarmed crew even!
June 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
cause the ship pillaging they do is more sophisticated than that. and these pirates know when theres a trap for em
June 15th, 2009 at 12:46 am
those pirates are like the taliban.no matter how many of those pirates are killed they will always bounce back and stronger than before.
let they government deal with them.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:42 am
The ocean is huge and full of thousands of ships. The chances of them stumbling across a handful of boats like this is almost 0.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Because only about 1 in a 1000 ships transiting the area are attacked by pirates. With these odds it is unlikely that the pirates would actually attack the Q-ship.