the US has the capability to solve this problem fairly readily, but lacks the fortitude in our leadership to do it the way it should be done. all the Prez has to do is to tell his military commanders to fix it, and they will and can.
For the most part these are not US flagged ships. The one time that I recall a US flagged ship being hijacked, the US did send Navy Seals in. Several hijackers were killed and the hostages rescued. I don’t think it is our government’s responsibilty to incur the cost of policing the Indian Ocean, when it isn’t our ships that are being hijacked.
Why not fight back. It seems to me that a simple non lethal method of stopping most pirates boarding commercial shipping would be a good old fashioned net . a buoyed and weighted net dropped into the water or fired as with a bird catcher in the path of a pirate boat would foul their props . A suitable nylon net would disable most prop driven boats. a net could be safely launched at an attacking pirate craft. to leave it disabled and hopefully damaged. Its just a though
can LRAD use to control elephant attacks to villages. means use as a barrier to elephant to enter into border villages. and also not harming other animals
the US has the capability to solve this problem fairly readily, but lacks the fortitude in our leadership to do it the way it should be done. all the Prez has to do is to tell his military commanders to fix it, and they will and can.
For the most part these are not US flagged ships. The one time that I recall a US flagged ship being hijacked, the US did send Navy Seals in. Several hijackers were killed and the hostages rescued. I don’t think it is our government’s responsibilty to incur the cost of policing the Indian Ocean, when it isn’t our ships that are being hijacked.
Why not fight back. It seems to me that a simple non lethal method of stopping most pirates boarding commercial shipping would be a good old fashioned net . a buoyed and weighted net dropped into the water or fired as with a bird catcher in the path of a pirate boat would foul their props . A suitable nylon net would disable most prop driven boats. a net could be safely launched at an attacking pirate craft. to leave it disabled and hopefully damaged. Its just a though
Zoidle
can LRAD use to control elephant attacks to villages. means use as a barrier to elephant to enter into border villages. and also not harming other animals