Topic: What happened to the Pirate thread?

[Ghandi]

It disappeared.

I was going to reply with this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/africa/16pirate.html?_r=1&hp

Apparently there are tons of warships in the area, but the pirates are evading them and stepping up attacks. The pirates are good.

[Cobra951]

The pirates are totally outgunned. They continue to cruise around in fiberglass skiffs with assault rifles and at best a few rocket-propelled grenades. One Italian officer said that going after them in a 485-foot-long destroyer, bristling with surface-to-air missiles and torpedoes, was like “going after someone on a bicycle with a truck.”

*Slaps forehead*  Idiots.  "Yeah, I don't understand why I couldn't kill that fly.  My shotgun can blow a hole through your house."

Surveillance.  Pinpointing.  One guided missile out of nowhere.  Let's see them outmaneuver that.  Instead, they're trying to fight this like the battle of Midway.

[Ghandi]

Ah, the parallels.

[ScaryTooth]

Boom!

[gpw11]

*Slaps forehead*  Idiots.  "Yeah, I don't understand why I couldn't kill that fly.  My shotgun can blow a hole through your house."

Surveillance.  Pinpointing.  One guided missile out of nowhere.  Let's see them outmaneuver that.  Instead, they're trying to fight this like the battle of Midway.

Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous.  You'd honestly think they'd teach this kind of shit at officer's school.  So now it kind of begs the question - what do they teach?