http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...te-rabble.html

What can you say.....harsh?, maybe.....but not way off the mark - not the Navys fault clearly, but Labour's Human Rights Act of 1997 and probably will be Harriet Habidons Equality Bill thats going through right now

Originally Posted by DeltaDog

Originally Posted by TASO09

Anybody want to go halves for a minigun?
http://www.somalicruises.com/

If only it were real!!

Seconded!

As for the Thread: it was Danish SF who rescued the hostages. Not a bunch of sailors with only basic weapons training and no training at all in hostage rescue.

Even Royal Marines would have been of little use in that situation, as the black arts of hostage rescue are not part of the Commando Course.

Anyone here doubt that the Navy would like nothing better than to be allowed to use Somalia as one BFO firing range? Blame the politicians and international law for the p1ss-weak ROE, not the RN.

Originally Posted by Werewolf

Originally Posted by DeltaDog

Originally Posted by TASO09

Anybody want to go halves for a minigun?
http://www.somalicruises.com/

If only it were real!!

Seconded!

As for the Thread: it was Danish SF who rescued the hostages. Not a bunch of sailors with only basic weapons training and no training at all in hostage rescue.

Even Royal Marines would have been of little use in that situation, as the black arts of hostage rescue are not part of the Commando Course.

Anyone here doubt that the Navy would like nothing better than to be allowed to use Somalia as one BFO firing range? Blame the politicians and international law for the p1ss-weak ROE, not the RN.

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Originally Posted by tropper66

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Which fits in where, exactly, with regard to a boat load of innocent civilians being used as human shields by drugged-up, trigger-happy thugs?

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Originally Posted by tropper66

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Which fits in where, exactly, with regard to a boat load of innocent civilians being used as human shields by drugged-up, trigger-happy thugs?

I take it you have not seen the photographs and video taken from the Wave Knight which is well armed with 2x Phalanx and 2 30mm BMARC guns

Originally Posted by tropper66

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Originally Posted by tropper66

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Which fits in where, exactly, with regard to a boat load of innocent civilians being used as human shields by drugged-up, trigger-happy thugs?

I take it you have not seen the photographs and video taken from the Wave Knight which is well armed with 2x Phalanx and 2 30mm BMARC guns

No I haven't. Link?

Originally Posted by tropper66

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Originally Posted by tropper66

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Which fits in where, exactly, with regard to a boat load of innocent civilians being used as human shields by drugged-up, trigger-happy thugs?

I take it you have not seen the photographs and video taken from the Wave Knight which is well armed with 2x Phalanx and 2 30mm BMARC guns

The question remains: what, exactly, was the Wave Knight supposed to do with all that firepower?

IIRC, they did'nt reach the boat until after it had been boarded by the Somalians, so it's not as if they could have gotten their retaliation in first and shot fcuk out of the Skinnies before they grabbed the hostages. And once the Skinnies got their hands on the couple, all of Wave Knights weapons were effectively useless.

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Originally Posted by tropper66

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Originally Posted by tropper66

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy" Horatio Nelson

Which fits in where, exactly, with regard to a boat load of innocent civilians being used as human shields by drugged-up, trigger-happy thugs?

I take it you have not seen the photographs and video taken from the Wave Knight which is well armed with 2x Phalanx and 2 30mm BMARC guns

No I haven't. Link?

It appears to have been pulled and replaced with the crew of the Wave Knight doing ( wait for it ) Gun Drills, Google is your friend

Originally Posted by TASO09

Anybody want to go halves for a minigun?
http://www.somalicruises.com/

i wonder if the boss would sign us up for adventure training????

awesome

Make no mistake, things don't always go the pirates' way. The warships on station have thwarted countless Somali pirate attacks with boarding paraphanalia and weapons either ditched or confiscated and pirates arrested if caught in the act. Like most good news involving RN and other warships it seems, such successes seldom make the headlines although some of them get reported:

Royal Navy frigate, HMS Portland (F79) disarms suspected pirate skiffs
Coalition Warship (HMS Campbeltown) Thwarts Pirate Attack in Arabian Sea
Royal Navy (HMS Cumberland) in firefight with Somali pirates
RFA Wave Knight Disrupts Pirate Attacks
Canadian and British Ships Foil Pirate Attack
Australian navy thwarts pirates attack, sends them packing
US and Russian Navy Arrest 26 Somali Pirates
Canadian warship thwarts Somali pirate attack
Dutch navy arrests Somali pirates
Greek warship stops halts pirates
Saudi frigate thwarts pirate attack on ship
Chinese warships thwart pirate attack off Somalia
Royal Malaysian Navy thwarts pirate attack
French Navy Thwarts Pirate Attack, 11 Pirates Captured
Somali pirates arrested by Swedish navy forces
Danish warship thwarts pirate attack on Chinese vessel in Gulf of Aden
Portuguese frigate thwarts pirate attack
Spanish capture 'Somali pirates'
Indian Navy ship thwarts pirate attack on US tanker in Gulf
EU naval mission thwarts pirate attack off Somalia
Yemen says 4 Somali pirates arrested
Yemen: eight Somali pirates arrested
Somaliland: Pirates Arrested Near Berbera
Four Somali pirates arrested
Nine Somali pirates arrested in Gulf of Aden
Five arrested Somali pirates in Dutch court
Somali pirates arrested after failed attack on German tanker